Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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81–100 (328)
tiny.ag/sefftpkt · submitted 1997
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
tiny.ag/b5zelloy · submitted 1997
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
tiny.ag/tzkxgb3b · submitted 1997
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
tiny.ag/6rk1jdhd · submitted 1997
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
tiny.ag/b8jzieda · submitted 1997 by David Epstein
Do two wrongs make a right? Yes. The right to be wrong.
tiny.ag/fbo95pnn · submitted 1997
In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
tiny.ag/syqg9cuz · submitted 1997
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
tiny.ag/slywabar · submitted 1997
Only the educated are free.
tiny.ag/jjws8glu · submitted 1997
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
tiny.ag/jcg8ibwt · submitted 1997
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
tiny.ag/wujpidqy · submitted 1999
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character. The only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.
tiny.ag/kmlacltu · submitted 1997
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
tiny.ag/vm35jkqm · submitted 1997
Before God we are all equally wise -- and equally foolish.
tiny.ag/abelggxc · submitted 1997
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
tiny.ag/htczvg3n · submitted 1997
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
tiny.ag/trlcjdxx · submitted 1997
The most valuable and useful of all talents and abilities is that of never using two words or descriptions when one will do or suffice.
tiny.ag/8hodlqqe · submitted 1997
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confessor of character.
tiny.ag/vkcynult · submitted 1997
Upon the education of the people the fate of this country depends.
tiny.ag/7andkqlu · submitted 1997
People only see what they are prepared to see.
tiny.ag/cmrnisvx · submitted 1997
Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
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