Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/pdln3czv · submitted 1997
You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.
Dorothy Parker, (when asked to use the word "horticulture" in a sentence), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/hutuz2wq · submitted 1997
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
tiny.ag/ctg0dc6w · submitted 1999 by Bill Masterson
All generalizations are false, including this one.
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/ipsoc5wu · submitted 1997
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
tiny.ag/vp1lnrlz · submitted 1997
Everything you can imagine is real.
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/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/nolhz29r · submitted 1998
Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
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/pgdfkoxt · submitted 1997
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
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/0h8wlpui · submitted 1997
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
tiny.ag/ipa5yree · submitted 1997
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
John A. Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/wuzygxbp · submitted 1999
Watch the traffic, the light will never hit you.
tiny.ag/6rk1jdhd · submitted 1997
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
tiny.ag/tzkxgb3b · submitted 1997
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
tiny.ag/b5zelloy · submitted 1997
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
tiny.ag/w4crozj1 · submitted 1997
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
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