Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/k0emebpg · submitted 2011 by peter
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.
tiny.ag/6hcujeiu · submitted 1997
Beware the man of one book.
St. Thomas Aquinas, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/q2cvf8pi · submitted 1997
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
tiny.ag/khtxcyl0 · submitted 1997
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
tiny.ag/6wydulw8 · submitted 1997
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
tiny.ag/2ljggwxr · submitted 1997
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Aristophanes, The Birds, 414 B.C., in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/hfx4m7bz · submitted 1998 by David Shorr
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination
Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon, XCIV, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/dc6pcq9o · submitted 1997
All men naturally desire knowledge.
tiny.ag/ckgbheun · submitted 1997
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you -- but if you really make them think they'll hate you.
tiny.ag/ina54mbv · submitted 1997
If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will.
tiny.ag/izsokq3v · submitted 1997
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.
tiny.ag/klphp6u7 · submitted 1997
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
tiny.ag/qhswaupg · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
tiny.ag/xzi3am2h · submitted 1997
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
tiny.ag/njk4cbzp · submitted 1997
Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.
tiny.ag/xjb1ypdu · submitted 1997
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Unknown, (Chinese proverb), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ls0zmykb · submitted 1997 by Mark Dawson
However hot the water is, the fire still goes out.
tiny.ag/qksor8sl · submitted 1997
I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.
tiny.ag/vhuaqm1e · submitted 1997
If you do what you've always done, you'll be what you've always been.
tiny.ag/hsipkpnw · submitted 1997
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
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