Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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61–80 (328)
tiny.ag/mchnry1s · ★★☆☆ Fair (99 ratings) · submitted 1997
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
tiny.ag/z91tc0go · ★★☆☆ Fair (430 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
tiny.ag/hurfcg6j · ★★☆☆ Fair (401 ratings) · submitted 1997
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
tiny.ag/b3ohbca1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (254 ratings) · submitted 1998
He who spends his time reading aphorisms of another to have one of his own, has no time or brains to have any of his own.
tiny.ag/l0kufav6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (157 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
tiny.ag/ypvm5zmk · ★★☆☆ Fair (279 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can observe a lot by watching.
tiny.ag/wirqwxvl · ★★☆☆ Fair (415 ratings) · submitted 1997
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
tiny.ag/viymqgdo · ★★☆☆ Fair (172 ratings) · submitted 1997
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am."
tiny.ag/yfqykgpj · ★★☆☆ Fair (460 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the fool their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/6kh8ljvj · ★★☆☆ Fair (163 ratings) · submitted 1997
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
tiny.ag/6hcujeiu · ★★☆☆ Fair (320 ratings) · submitted 1997
Beware the man of one book.
St. Thomas Aquinas, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/oujwgybq · ★★☆☆ Fair (355 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wit is educated insolence.
tiny.ag/evgupvn3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (546 ratings) · submitted 1997
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
tiny.ag/to1nvxvz · ★★☆☆ Fair (131 ratings) · submitted 1997
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
tiny.ag/pgsxbect · ★★☆☆ Fair (179 ratings) · submitted 1998
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it's been though a blender first.
Les Barker, An Infinite Number of Occasional Tables, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/klphp6u7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
tiny.ag/dc6pcq9o · ★★☆☆ Fair (425 ratings) · submitted 1997
All men naturally desire knowledge.
tiny.ag/hfx4m7bz · ★★☆☆ Fair (555 ratings) · submitted 1998 by David Shorr
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination
Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon, XCIV, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/2ljggwxr · ★★☆☆ Fair (337 ratings) · submitted 1997
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Aristophanes, The Birds, 414 B.C., in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/khtxcyl0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (389 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
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