Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/3zbbml0p · ★★☆☆ Fair (60 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
tiny.ag/fajyrg9v · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
tiny.ag/zk1y5cnl · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
tiny.ag/fyc0iesz · ★★☆☆ Fair (73 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of Truth.
tiny.ag/hxzyk2h6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (100 ratings) · submitted 1997
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
tiny.ag/lveycuka · ★★☆☆ Fair (129 ratings) · submitted 1998
Just because you've been wiping your ass for twenty years, that doesn't mean you've been doing it right.
John Winsett, (said at a training seminar), in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/iurrlmux · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
tiny.ag/hevntg1m · ★★☆☆ Fair (160 ratings) · submitted 1997
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. Williams, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/r0a9zwmr · ★★☆☆ Fair (121 ratings) · submitted 1997
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
tiny.ag/dkwycxon · ★★☆☆ Fair (38 ratings) · submitted 1997
Clear writers assume, with a pessimism born of experience, that whatever isn't plainly stated the reader will invariably misconstrue.
tiny.ag/bucadpxy · ★★☆☆ Fair (340 ratings) · submitted 1997
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, "I don't know."
tiny.ag/ahogqesm · ★★☆☆ Fair (350 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
tiny.ag/g8ncpo30 · ★★☆☆ Fair (517 ratings) · submitted 1997
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read.
tiny.ag/3laiwzst · ★★☆☆ Fair (88 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
tiny.ag/if4vw3y9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (147 ratings) · submitted 1997
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/e9njxakr · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
Kelvin Throop, III, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/jf8fhnam · ★★☆☆ Fair (265 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
tiny.ag/cu6vdywe · ★★☆☆ Fair (38 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.
Edward Lee Thorndike, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/jttv8uoi · ★★☆☆ Fair (22 ratings) · submitted 1997
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
tiny.ag/e2icakpf · ★★☆☆ Fair (49 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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