Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
241–260 (328)
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/x06lwkz4 · submitted 1997
Life's tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
tiny.ag/6pua1ipj · submitted 1997
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
tiny.ag/6b9j37a4 · submitted 1997
Wise men don't need advice; fools don't take it.
tiny.ag/bdh0f7mw · submitted 1997
Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
tiny.ag/np6qfeud · submitted 1997
Everything we really need to know we learned in kindergarten.
Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/hsbozuvd · submitted 1997
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
tiny.ag/vk93rps4 · submitted 1997
We must become the change we want to see.
tiny.ag/zzbstsyk · submitted 1997
If the aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
tiny.ag/qwlnrjbr · submitted 1997
Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.
tiny.ag/llsj2qct · submitted 1997
A pseudo-intellectual is a person who knows what "pseudo" means.
tiny.ag/4rgim10d · submitted 1997
A single fact can spoil a good argument.
tiny.ag/2o4terst · submitted 1999 by LEStephey
A small journey begins with one step and ends with another.
tiny.ag/izsokq3v · submitted 1997
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.
tiny.ag/qhswaupg · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
tiny.ag/to1nvxvz · submitted 1997
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
tiny.ag/jpox64sd · submitted 1997
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/52bhttiz · submitted 1997
Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/f4ckcyx8 · submitted 1997
If you never change your mind, why have one?
tiny.ag/t8hgtc1d · submitted 1997
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
W. Edwards Deming, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
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