Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
281–300 (328)
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/xzi3am2h · submitted 1997
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
tiny.ag/njk4cbzp · submitted 1997
Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.
tiny.ag/xjb1ypdu · submitted 1997
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Unknown, (Chinese proverb), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/pgsxbect · submitted 1998
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it's been though a blender first.
Les Barker, An Infinite Number of Occasional Tables, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/o1adwrjp · submitted 1997
Never forget what you need to remember.
tiny.ag/mchnry1s · submitted 1997
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
tiny.ag/z91tc0go · submitted 1997
It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
tiny.ag/hurfcg6j · submitted 1997
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
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.
tiny.ag/l0kufav6 · submitted 1997
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
tiny.ag/ypvm5zmk · submitted 1997
You can observe a lot by watching.
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
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