Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/ed9aels7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (407 ratings) · submitted 1997
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
tiny.ag/wqs4yam6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (94 ratings) · submitted 1997
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."
tiny.ag/gvfo9jw1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (547 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
tiny.ag/bqie1hj5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (651 ratings) · submitted 1998
An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.
tiny.ag/li6watos · ★★☆☆ Fair (263 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ejvaborl · ★★☆☆ Fair (259 ratings) · submitted 1997
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
tiny.ag/cgydzmit · ★★☆☆ Fair (450 ratings) · submitted 1997
To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
tiny.ag/jxzh2igc · ★★☆☆ Fair (23 ratings) · submitted 1997
Does a one-legged duck swim in a circle?
tiny.ag/4hqstejw · ★★☆☆ Fair (348 ratings) · submitted 1997
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
William Cowper, Conversation, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/1b7ttrhh · ★★☆☆ Fair (203 ratings) · submitted 1997
We find comfort among those who agree with us; growth among those who don't.
tiny.ag/hmqvyuqz · ★★☆☆ Fair (262 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
tiny.ag/shpmv1fs · ★★☆☆ Fair (323 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.
tiny.ag/cnifx1o4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (248 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
tiny.ag/4ezjejb0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (97 ratings) · submitted 1997
You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.
tiny.ag/knybox5w · ★★☆☆ Fair (94 ratings) · submitted 1997
Style is an easy way of saying complicated things.
tiny.ag/wonmj58n · ★★☆☆ Fair (1030 ratings) · submitted 1999 by David B. Cole, Jr.
Reality is subordinate to perception.
tiny.ag/bku8tth7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (85 ratings) · submitted 1997
If we are the only intelligent life in the universe, at least there's a finite number of idiots.
tiny.ag/mmclufba · ★★☆☆ Fair (310 ratings) · submitted 1997
Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject... The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
tiny.ag/ajjiywbg · ★★☆☆ Fair (230 ratings) · submitted 1997
It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.
tiny.ag/hczjqg3z · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
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