Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/chnlsua0 · submitted 1997
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
tiny.ag/hksesmq7 · submitted 1997
Education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
tiny.ag/0hselcjm · submitted 1997
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
tiny.ag/knhyutua · submitted 1997
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John F. Kennedy, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/jp6bkest · submitted 1997
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
tiny.ag/mrm8ujlt · submitted 1998 by Marc Spierings
Knowledge and belief are two separate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.
Godfried Bomans, Buitelingen II, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
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/inomue9p · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote", in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/wagakfth · submitted 1999
Learning to shrug is the beginning of wisdom.
Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ow2rizet · submitted 1998
In order to keep an open mind, I am trying to avoid learning anything.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/kl2zmoog · submitted 1997 by Barry Cantor
Today's children are required to learn what most people in former times were forbidden to know.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/rci53dro · submitted 1997
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
tiny.ag/eqpdfyuw · submitted 1997
Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement.
tiny.ag/mmclufba · submitted 1997
Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject... The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
tiny.ag/haxoltok · submitted 1997
Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it.
tiny.ag/ybv1maqw · submitted 1997 by Gord Weitzel
One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
tiny.ag/2j17qytc · submitted 1999
One thing is one thing. Another thing is another thing.
tiny.ag/sshro1au · submitted 1997 by Gord Weitzel
Policy is a guide to the wise and a rule to the fool.
Unknown, (expression used in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police), in Wisdom and Ignorance
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