Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/0rczsoyu · ★★☆☆ Fair (22 ratings) · submitted 1997
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
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/9bdy4k6s · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
tiny.ag/4mch5yty · ★★☆☆ Fair (63 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
tiny.ag/mgn8bwur · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
tiny.ag/o4053hxu · ★★☆☆ Fair (108 ratings) · 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/r2oe16bv · ★★☆☆ Fair (352 ratings) · submitted 1997
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
tiny.ag/inmjkhxu · ★★☆☆ Fair (24 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you hear a wise sentence or an apt phrase, commit it to your memory.
tiny.ag/aj3tzjw2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (39 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.
tiny.ag/yzyptgt2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (61 ratings) · submitted 1997
The world's greatest heroes are the world's greatest fuck-ups.
tiny.ag/spdfyk43 · ★★☆☆ Fair (25 ratings) · submitted 1997
Advice is like kissing. It costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.
tiny.ag/zsy8hdo3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (236 ratings) · submitted 1997
My father must have had some elementary education, for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.
tiny.ag/dyhkrulm · ★★☆☆ Fair (50 ratings) · submitted 1997
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.
tiny.ag/7vrvn3zw · ★★☆☆ Fair (238 ratings) · submitted 1997
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
tiny.ag/tde4qweo · ★★☆☆ Fair (247 ratings) · submitted 1997
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
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