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/cmrnisvx · submitted 1997
Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
tiny.ag/wujpidqy · submitted 1999
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character. The only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.
tiny.ag/htczvg3n · submitted 1997
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
tiny.ag/abelggxc · submitted 1997
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
tiny.ag/vm35jkqm · submitted 1997
Before God we are all equally wise -- and equally foolish.
tiny.ag/kmlacltu · submitted 1997
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
tiny.ag/losztnwc · submitted 1997
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/4agfdmeh · submitted 1997
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
tiny.ag/hnsdx84l · submitted 1997
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
tiny.ag/jagw9uxy · submitted 1997
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
Scott Elledge, (on his retirement from Cornell University), in Wisdom and Ignorance and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/7fjtgxm8 · submitted 1997
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
tiny.ag/yoharucr · submitted 1997
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
tiny.ag/qn3ryz0y · submitted 1998
Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
tiny.ag/pizd3ywt · submitted 1997
I hate quotations.
tiny.ag/7andkqlu · submitted 1997
People only see what they are prepared to see.
tiny.ag/8hodlqqe · submitted 1997
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confessor of character.
tiny.ag/jcg8ibwt · submitted 1997
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
tiny.ag/jjws8glu · submitted 1997
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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