Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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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/z0pv1omm · submitted 1997
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
tiny.ag/ufko7fwv · submitted 1997
I do not know myself and God forbid that I should.
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/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/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/r2oe16bv · submitted 1997
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
tiny.ag/o4053hxu · submitted 1997
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/pwfxhqlj · submitted 1997
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
tiny.ag/yxk2wmee · submitted 1997
No one wants a good education, but everyone wants a good degree.
tiny.ag/wf0milq1 · submitted 1997
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
tiny.ag/qy4zssfi · submitted 1997
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
tiny.ag/dy2zaj4v · submitted 1997
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
tiny.ag/hlnxvxip · submitted 1997
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
tiny.ag/9bdy4k6s · submitted 1997
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
tiny.ag/dyhkrulm · submitted 1997
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.
tiny.ag/mgn8bwur · submitted 1997
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
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