Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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101–120 (328)
tiny.ag/aj3tzjw2 · submitted 1997
Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.
tiny.ag/0rczsoyu · submitted 1997
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
tiny.ag/tf9fn0vv · submitted 1997
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
tiny.ag/hk1fnrrg · submitted 1997
The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.
tiny.ag/ef1mcjvo · submitted 1997
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
tiny.ag/5hbi0ras · submitted 1997
Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.
David Summers, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/s2pjkz1e · submitted 1997
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/wvfixygn · submitted 1997
Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.
tiny.ag/jf8fhnam · submitted 1997
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
tiny.ag/cu6vdywe · submitted 1997
He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.
Edward Lee Thorndike, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/inmjkhxu · submitted 1997
If you hear a wise sentence or an apt phrase, commit it to your memory.
tiny.ag/yzyptgt2 · submitted 1997
The world's greatest heroes are the world's greatest fuck-ups.
tiny.ag/spdfyk43 · submitted 1997
Advice is like kissing. It costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.
tiny.ag/tde4qweo · submitted 1997
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
tiny.ag/zsy8hdo3 · submitted 1997
My father must have had some elementary education, for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.
tiny.ag/vkcynult · submitted 1997
Upon the education of the people the fate of this country depends.
tiny.ag/yxk2wmee · submitted 1997
No one wants a good education, but everyone wants a good degree.
tiny.ag/pwfxhqlj · submitted 1997
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
tiny.ag/sr7yv9lh · submitted 1997
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
tiny.ag/o4053hxu · submitted 1997
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
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