Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
61–80 (328)
tiny.ag/vk93rps4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1554 ratings) · submitted 1997
We must become the change we want to see.
tiny.ag/ufko7fwv · ★★☆☆ Fair (3086 ratings) · submitted 1997
I do not know myself and God forbid that I should.
tiny.ag/juocdkwi · ★★☆☆ Fair (869 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it, and have not reached my goal.
tiny.ag/zzbstsyk · ★★☆☆ Fair (275 ratings) · submitted 1997
If the aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
tiny.ag/qwlnrjbr · ★★☆☆ Fair (35 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.
tiny.ag/uejht2oo · ★★☆☆ Fair (234 ratings) · submitted 1997
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
tiny.ag/1bbjwdu7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (71 ratings) · 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/z0pv1omm · ★★☆☆ Fair (46 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
tiny.ag/voc2uwcw · ★★☆☆ Fair (262 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best defense against logic is ignorance.
tiny.ag/1iteoxru · ★★☆☆ Fair (269 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
tiny.ag/2j17qytc · ★★☆☆ Fair (948 ratings) · submitted 1999
One thing is one thing. Another thing is another thing.
tiny.ag/as0knvco · ★★☆☆ Fair (262 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference.
tiny.ag/pxfadpln · ★★☆☆ Fair (255 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never give advice -- a wise man won't need it, a fool won't heed it.
tiny.ag/yjcobkfn · ★★☆☆ Fair (228 ratings) · submitted 1997
No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid.
tiny.ag/haxoltok · ★★☆☆ Fair (246 ratings) · submitted 1997
Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it.
tiny.ag/ybv1maqw · ★★☆☆ Fair (335 ratings) · submitted 1997 by Gord Weitzel
One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
tiny.ag/hjfwoanr · ★★☆☆ Fair (252 ratings) · submitted 1997
Stupidity is also known as a medical disorder known as a rectal-cranial inversion.
tiny.ag/sshro1au · ★★☆☆ Fair (325 ratings) · submitted 1997 by Gord Weitzel
Policy is a guide to the wise and a rule to the fool.
Unknown, (expression used in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/qgiakofl · ★★☆☆ Fair (1029 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Johan
Sharks mainly attack when your're wet.
tiny.ag/9zpbxeoc · ★★☆☆ Fair (231 ratings) · submitted 1997
Some people speak from experience; others, from experience, don't speak.
61–80 (328)