Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
61–80 (328)
tiny.ag/n41eagpf · ★★☆☆ Fair (779 ratings) · submitted 1997
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/yvzq4h9m · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
Learning is the evolution of the mind.
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/jxzh2igc · ★★☆☆ Fair (23 ratings) · submitted 1997
Does a one-legged duck swim in a circle?
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/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/cgydzmit · ★★☆☆ Fair (450 ratings) · submitted 1997
To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
tiny.ag/wonmj58n · ★★☆☆ Fair (1030 ratings) · submitted 1999 by David B. Cole, Jr.
Reality is subordinate to perception.
tiny.ag/knybox5w · ★★☆☆ Fair (94 ratings) · submitted 1997
Style is an easy way of saying complicated things.
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/hmqvyuqz · ★★☆☆ Fair (262 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
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/1b7ttrhh · ★★☆☆ Fair (203 ratings) · submitted 1997
We find comfort among those who agree with us; growth among those who don't.
tiny.ag/ejvaborl · ★★☆☆ Fair (259 ratings) · submitted 1997
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
tiny.ag/satkf7ke · ★★☆☆ Fair (107 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
tiny.ag/ieyckbys · ★★☆☆ Fair (563 ratings) · submitted 1997
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
tiny.ag/gesq5cpw · ★★☆☆ Fair (357 ratings) · submitted 1997
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
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