Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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101–120 (328)
tiny.ag/psxefgev · submitted 1997
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
tiny.ag/l0ggy3oy · submitted 1999
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope, (from Golden Treasury of the Familiar), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/dzuvvei3 · submitted 1997
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
tiny.ag/63vctqjk · submitted 1997
Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
tiny.ag/s6frnocs · submitted 1997
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato, The Republic, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/vp1lnrlz · submitted 1997
Everything you can imagine is real.
tiny.ag/ipsoc5wu · submitted 1997
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
tiny.ag/xrmys3sk · submitted 1997
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
Luciano Pavarotti, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/0h8wlpui · submitted 1997
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
tiny.ag/airwcz94 · 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/pgdfkoxt · submitted 1997
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
tiny.ag/hrlrndwx · submitted 1997
If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.
tiny.ag/nolhz29r · submitted 1998
Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
tiny.ag/htpbx3e8 · submitted 1997
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
tiny.ag/gokrtfpu · 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/qabymet3 · submitted 1997
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
tiny.ag/qiy9xdhn · 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/tcyzf8gu · submitted 1999 by David Knight
An expert is someone who is one page ahead of you in the manual.
tiny.ag/okwhuss2 · submitted 1997
A man lives by believing in something, not by debating and arguing about many things.
tiny.ag/rv5rwqlp · submitted 1998
"Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in Wisdom and Ignorance
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