Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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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/8gzg3rxx · submitted 1997
Ever notice that "what the hell" is always the right decision?
tiny.ag/b1luxoq2 · submitted 1997
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
tiny.ag/daezmd7g · submitted 1997
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
tiny.ag/uxa3t4kn · submitted 1999
Reality is something you rise above.
tiny.ag/xz5aiowd · submitted 1997
I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/0elygtgv · submitted 1997
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
James Michener, Space, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/kqr3auag · submitted 1997
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
tiny.ag/qol2sxws · submitted 1997
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein -- it rejects it.
tiny.ag/7gpwjccm · submitted 1997
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. And inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
tiny.ag/wuzygxbp · submitted 1999
Watch the traffic, the light will never hit you.
tiny.ag/qkrsbfxv · submitted 1997
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
tiny.ag/n5jvquk2 · submitted 1998
Those who can do, those who can't teach, and those who can't teach teach education.
tiny.ag/h8oiwuf7 · submitted 1997
Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it.
tiny.ag/3zbbml0p · submitted 1997
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
tiny.ag/jwespnab · submitted 1997
No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
tiny.ag/dwmxy2kw · submitted 1997
Education is civil defense against media fallout.
tiny.ag/fkuqm4vt · submitted 1997
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
tiny.ag/xachd7wx · submitted 1997
Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.
Alfred Korzybski, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/tcyzf8gu · submitted 1999 by David Knight
An expert is someone who is one page ahead of you in the manual.
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