Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
281–300 (328)
tiny.ag/9exonkwl · ★★☆☆ Fair (129 ratings) · submitted 1997
Growing old is not growing up.
tiny.ag/hvtkmq8l · ★★☆☆ Fair (154 ratings) · submitted 1997
Strong words are required for weak principles.
Doug Horton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/tcyzf8gu · ★★☆☆ Fair (1560 ratings) · submitted 1999 by David Knight
An expert is someone who is one page ahead of you in the manual.
tiny.ag/qiy9xdhn · ★★☆☆ Fair (1031 ratings) · submitted 1997
To "be" means to be related.
Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/xachd7wx · ★★☆☆ Fair (677 ratings) · submitted 1997
Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.
Alfred Korzybski, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/qabymet3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (24 ratings) · submitted 1997
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
tiny.ag/gokrtfpu · ★★☆☆ Fair (563 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.
tiny.ag/htpbx3e8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (172 ratings) · submitted 1997
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
tiny.ag/nolhz29r · ★★☆☆ Fair (126 ratings) · submitted 1998
Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
tiny.ag/hrlrndwx · ★★☆☆ Fair (216 ratings) · submitted 1997
If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.
tiny.ag/pgdfkoxt · ★★☆☆ Fair (72 ratings) · submitted 1997
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
tiny.ag/airwcz94 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1078 ratings) · submitted 1997
A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
G. C. Lichtenberg, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/0h8wlpui · ★★☆☆ Fair (43 ratings) · submitted 1997
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
tiny.ag/ipa5yree · ★★☆☆ Fair (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
John A. Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/s0wemj5y · ★★☆☆ Fair (25 ratings) · submitted 1997
A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.
tiny.ag/gbo6vshj · ★★☆☆ Fair (55 ratings) · submitted 1997
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
tiny.ag/6rk1jdhd · ★★☆☆ Fair (106 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
tiny.ag/tzkxgb3b · ★★☆☆ Fair (93 ratings) · submitted 1997
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
tiny.ag/b5zelloy · ★★☆☆ Fair (531 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
tiny.ag/sefftpkt · ★★☆☆ Fair (150 ratings) · submitted 1997
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
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