Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/kgnpd9wc · submitted 1998
Even thinking is participation.
tiny.ag/st9mqgf5 · submitted 1997
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
tiny.ag/knhyutua · submitted 1997
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John F. Kennedy, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/jp6bkest · submitted 1997
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
tiny.ag/w4crozj1 · submitted 1997
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
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
tiny.ag/qabymet3 · submitted 1997
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
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/ow2rizet · submitted 1998
In order to keep an open mind, I am trying to avoid learning anything.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/kl2zmoog · submitted 1997 by Barry Cantor
Today's children are required to learn what most people in former times were forbidden to know.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/rci53dro · submitted 1997
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
tiny.ag/eqpdfyuw · submitted 1997
Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement.
tiny.ag/soebrnq6 · submitted 1997
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Sam Brown, (Washington Post, 1977), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ajjiywbg · submitted 1997
It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.
tiny.ag/hczjqg3z · submitted 1997
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
tiny.ag/mmclufba · submitted 1997
Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject... The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
tiny.ag/ieyckbys · submitted 1997
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
tiny.ag/fj2gtz79 · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Robert Burton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
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