Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/ckgbheun · submitted 1997
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you -- but if you really make them think they'll hate you.
tiny.ag/90upthng · submitted 1999
If you're here, you're alive.
tiny.ag/tbra32py · submitted 1997
Use soft words and hard arguments.
tiny.ag/kov3nzmi · submitted 1997
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
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/bzeqsrni · submitted 1997
Wise men make proverbs; fools repeat them.
tiny.ag/muxgqopb · submitted 1997
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Unknown, (Greek proverb), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/mfa7pfik · submitted 1998 by Dave Supulski
You are only young once... but you can be immature your whole life.
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/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/otl52twf · submitted 1997 by James Menzies
The masses have little time to think. And how incredible is the willingness of modern man to believe.
Benito Mussolini, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/h2rdoaxw · submitted 1997
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
tiny.ag/mfx0o8sc · submitted 1997
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
tiny.ag/pwxgqowu · submitted 1997
We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are.
tiny.ag/l2qkzwis · submitted 1997
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
Robert J. Oppenheimer, (on Albert Einstein), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/8egicznw · submitted 1997
You have to be an intellectual to believe such nonsense. No ordinary man could be such a fool.
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
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