Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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301–320 (328)
tiny.ag/psxefgev · ★★☆☆ Fair (45 ratings) · submitted 1997
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
tiny.ag/mrepdhu2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (366 ratings) · submitted 1997
People who don't think probably don't have brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake.
Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/jpv6wv9c · ★★☆☆ Fair (340 ratings) · submitted 1997
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/y76kfgou · ★★☆☆ Fair (35 ratings) · submitted 1997
They talk most who have the least to say.
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/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/zwsbjgio · ★★☆☆ Fair (48 ratings) · submitted 1997
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is that little voice at the end of the day that says: "I'll try again tomorrow."
tiny.ag/qe3bg8q5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (61 ratings) · submitted 1997
Experience is not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens to you.
tiny.ag/egvuw4ni · ★★☆☆ Fair (852 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
tiny.ag/bague6sg · ★★☆☆ Fair (35 ratings) · submitted 1997
A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.
tiny.ag/jdfanm7k · ★★☆☆ Fair (238 ratings) · submitted 1998
Lately I've found that if it weren't for stereotypes, conversation would be much more difficult for the closed-minded.
tiny.ag/23goyhuk · ★★☆☆ Fair (33 ratings) · submitted 1997
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
tiny.ag/xz5aiowd · ★★☆☆ Fair (290 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/uxa3t4kn · ★★☆☆ Fair (784 ratings) · submitted 1999
Reality is something you rise above.
tiny.ag/daezmd7g · ★★☆☆ Fair (277 ratings) · submitted 1997
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
tiny.ag/b1luxoq2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (297 ratings) · submitted 1997
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
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