Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/wagakfth · submitted 1999
Learning to shrug is the beginning of wisdom.
Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ow2rizet · submitted 1998
In order to keep an open mind, I am trying to avoid learning anything.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/eqpdfyuw · submitted 1997
Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement.
tiny.ag/rci53dro · submitted 1997
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
tiny.ag/kl2zmoog · submitted 1997 by Barry Cantor
Today's children are required to learn what most people in former times were forbidden to know.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/wgyfgj8m · submitted 1997
Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Heschel, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ldizacqu · submitted 1997
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Salvor Hardin), in War and Peace and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/s0wemj5y · submitted 1997
A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.
tiny.ag/gbo6vshj · submitted 1997
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
tiny.ag/juocdkwi · 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/f4ckcyx8 · submitted 1997
If you never change your mind, why have one?
tiny.ag/5jqhurzz · submitted 1997
Look to the past for guidance into the future.
tiny.ag/wh6qtopk · submitted 1997
I improve on misquotation.
tiny.ag/ccrfqs3v · submitted 1997
I'm more like I am now than I ever was before.
tiny.ag/6qzazlkw · submitted 1997
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
tiny.ag/4hqstejw · submitted 1997
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
William Cowper, Conversation, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/n41eagpf · submitted 1997
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/yvzq4h9m · submitted 1997
Learning is the evolution of the mind.
tiny.ag/t8hgtc1d · submitted 1997
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
W. Edwards Deming, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/jxzh2igc · submitted 1997
Does a one-legged duck swim in a circle?
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