Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
261–280 (328)
tiny.ag/tf9fn0vv · ★★☆☆ Fair (73 ratings) · submitted 1997
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
tiny.ag/kjdwev6x · ★★☆☆ Fair (851 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Mark Richards
I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I alone know when that is.
tiny.ag/hlnxvxip · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
tiny.ag/dy2zaj4v · ★★☆☆ Fair (125 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
tiny.ag/qy4zssfi · ★★☆☆ Fair (132 ratings) · submitted 1997
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
tiny.ag/wf0milq1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (96 ratings) · submitted 1997
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
tiny.ag/yxk2wmee · ★★☆☆ Fair (35 ratings) · submitted 1997
No one wants a good education, but everyone wants a good degree.
tiny.ag/sr7yv9lh · ★★☆☆ Fair (112 ratings) · submitted 1997
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
tiny.ag/pwfxhqlj · ★★☆☆ Fair (128 ratings) · 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/ijzxqrho · ★★☆☆ Fair (36 ratings) · submitted 1997
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
tiny.ag/st9mqgf5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (99 ratings) · submitted 1997
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
tiny.ag/knhyutua · ★★☆☆ Fair (298 ratings) · submitted 1997
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John F. Kennedy, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/jp6bkest · ★★☆☆ Fair (326 ratings) · submitted 1997
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
tiny.ag/w4crozj1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
tiny.ag/loqr7ybp · ★★☆☆ Fair (272 ratings) · submitted 1997
Too clever is dumb.
tiny.ag/h2rdoaxw · ★★☆☆ Fair (289 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
tiny.ag/mfx0o8sc · ★★☆☆ Fair (528 ratings) · submitted 1997
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
tiny.ag/pwxgqowu · ★★☆☆ Fair (493 ratings) · submitted 1997
We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are.
tiny.ag/l2qkzwis · ★★☆☆ Fair (71 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
Robert J. Oppenheimer, (on Albert Einstein), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/8egicznw · ★★☆☆ Fair (374 ratings) · submitted 1997
You have to be an intellectual to believe such nonsense. No ordinary man could be such a fool.
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