Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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161–180 (328)
tiny.ag/h8oiwuf7 · submitted 1997
Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it.
tiny.ag/jwespnab · submitted 1997
No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
tiny.ag/fkuqm4vt · submitted 1997
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
tiny.ag/3zbbml0p · submitted 1997
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
tiny.ag/dwmxy2kw · submitted 1997
Education is civil defense against media fallout.
tiny.ag/qol2sxws · submitted 1997
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein -- it rejects it.
tiny.ag/kqr3auag · submitted 1997
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
tiny.ag/0elygtgv · submitted 1997
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
James Michener, Space, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/xz5aiowd · 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 · submitted 1999
Reality is something you rise above.
tiny.ag/daezmd7g · submitted 1997
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
tiny.ag/b1luxoq2 · submitted 1997
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
tiny.ag/8gzg3rxx · submitted 1997
Ever notice that "what the hell" is always the right decision?
tiny.ag/wuzygxbp · submitted 1999
Watch the traffic, the light will never hit you.
tiny.ag/qkrsbfxv · submitted 1997
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
tiny.ag/n5jvquk2 · submitted 1998
Those who can do, those who can't teach, and those who can't teach teach education.
tiny.ag/klphp6u7 · submitted 1997
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
tiny.ag/tcyzf8gu · submitted 1999 by David Knight
An expert is someone who is one page ahead of you in the manual.
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/xachd7wx · submitted 1997
Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.
Alfred Korzybski, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
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