Aphorism of the Day
This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.
Every single day, a very sophisticated computer running state of the art software carefully picks an aphorism from the collection and sends it out to all the nice people who have subscribed to the Aphorism of the Day. If you want to be one of these nice people, create a user profile and start a subscription.
1–10 (1852)
2026-07-05
tiny.ag/htpbx3e8 · submitted 1997
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
2026-07-04
tiny.ag/4xolnjrp · submitted 1997
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
2026-07-03
tiny.ag/hoklinq4 · submitted 1997
Middle age is youth without levity. And old age without decay.
2026-07-02
tiny.ag/hsipkpnw · submitted 1997
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
2026-07-01
tiny.ag/hksesmq7 · submitted 1997
Education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
2026-06-30
tiny.ag/qed4rpux · submitted 1997
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
2026-06-29
tiny.ag/bku8tth7 · submitted 1997
If we are the only intelligent life in the universe, at least there's a finite number of idiots.
2026-06-28
tiny.ag/fm3etwy0 · submitted 1997
They are never alone who are accompanied by noble thoughts.
2026-06-27
tiny.ag/826svnit · submitted 1998
Every soldier is an enemy.
2026-06-26
tiny.ag/jh8e0mpv · submitted 1997
Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground.
1–10 (1852)