Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/c9ykbift · submitted 1997
When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
tiny.ag/b8pl5th4 · submitted 1997
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
tiny.ag/slupay0r · submitted 1997
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
tiny.ag/njl5gsre · submitted 1997
Live to learn... forget... and learn again.
tiny.ag/as0knvco · submitted 1997
Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference.
tiny.ag/pxfadpln · submitted 1997
Never give advice -- a wise man won't need it, a fool won't heed it.
tiny.ag/yjcobkfn · submitted 1997
No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid.
tiny.ag/kiytmq1q · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities that I have visited, all my ancestors... Perhaps I would have liked to be my father, who wrote but has the decency of not publishing.
tiny.ag/bza7uu5d · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.
Jorge Luis Borges, "El informe de Brodie", in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/inomue9p · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote", in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/wagakfth · submitted 1999
Learning to shrug is the beginning of wisdom.
Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/bku8tth7 · submitted 1997
If we are the only intelligent life in the universe, at least there's a finite number of idiots.
tiny.ag/knybox5w · submitted 1997
Style is an easy way of saying complicated things.
tiny.ag/wonmj58n · submitted 1999 by David B. Cole, Jr.
Reality is subordinate to perception.
tiny.ag/4ezjejb0 · submitted 1997
You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.
tiny.ag/cnifx1o4 · submitted 1997
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
tiny.ag/shpmv1fs · submitted 1997
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.
tiny.ag/ed9aels7 · submitted 1997
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
tiny.ag/cgydzmit · submitted 1997
To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
tiny.ag/jxzh2igc · submitted 1997
Does a one-legged duck swim in a circle?
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