Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/oy08nxhf · submitted 1998 by Marc Spierings
To use a method is to compare the realm of mind to a stool. The true thinker walks freely.
Godfried Bomans, De avonturen van Bill Clifford, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
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/wirqwxvl · submitted 1997
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
tiny.ag/viymqgdo · submitted 1997
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am."
tiny.ag/yfqykgpj · submitted 1997
Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the fool their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/6kh8ljvj · submitted 1997
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
tiny.ag/y5vxd29g · submitted 1997
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
tiny.ag/lnv4og3o · submitted 1998
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
tiny.ag/lbtrv5my · submitted 1997
I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.
tiny.ag/ygbwscup · submitted 1997
You can tell a lot about a person by looking at what kind of people are his friends and children.
tiny.ag/l0kufav6 · submitted 1997
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
tiny.ag/mfa7pfik · submitted 1998 by Dave Supulski
You are only young once... but you can be immature your whole life.
tiny.ag/muxgqopb · submitted 1997
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Unknown, (Greek proverb), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/bzeqsrni · submitted 1997
Wise men make proverbs; fools repeat them.
tiny.ag/pkfmdhte · submitted 1997
When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains knowledge, he is an ordinary man.
Unknown, (Zen saying), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/kov3nzmi · submitted 1997
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
tiny.ag/tbra32py · submitted 1997
Use soft words and hard arguments.
tiny.ag/kk23yagw · submitted 1997
Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.
Unknown, (Muslim proverb), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/b3ohbca1 · submitted 1998
He who spends his time reading aphorisms of another to have one of his own, has no time or brains to have any of his own.
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