Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/dyhkrulm · submitted 1997
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.
tiny.ag/r2oe16bv · submitted 1997
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
tiny.ag/7vrvn3zw · submitted 1997
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
tiny.ag/zsy8hdo3 · submitted 1997
My father must have had some elementary education, for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.
tiny.ag/tde4qweo · submitted 1997
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
tiny.ag/yzyptgt2 · submitted 1997
The world's greatest heroes are the world's greatest fuck-ups.
tiny.ag/inmjkhxu · submitted 1997
If you hear a wise sentence or an apt phrase, commit it to your memory.
tiny.ag/spdfyk43 · submitted 1997
Advice is like kissing. It costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.
tiny.ag/bdh0f7mw · submitted 1997
Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
tiny.ag/qwlnrjbr · submitted 1997
Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.
tiny.ag/uejht2oo · submitted 1997
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
tiny.ag/b8pl5th4 · submitted 1997
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
tiny.ag/x06lwkz4 · submitted 1997
Life's tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
tiny.ag/6pua1ipj · submitted 1997
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
tiny.ag/6b9j37a4 · submitted 1997
Wise men don't need advice; fools don't take it.
tiny.ag/vk93rps4 · submitted 1997
We must become the change we want to see.
tiny.ag/c9ykbift · submitted 1997
When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
tiny.ag/1bbjwdu7 · submitted 1997
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
Ellen Glasgow, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/zzbstsyk · submitted 1997
If the aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
tiny.ag/z0pv1omm · submitted 1997
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
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