Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/eanvvuth · submitted 1997
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
tiny.ag/mwma270i · submitted 1997
If you believe everything you read, you'd better not read.
Unknown, (Japanese proverb), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/o7ofzkdq · submitted 1997
If you can read this, thank a teacher.
tiny.ag/hsipkpnw · submitted 1997
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
tiny.ag/vhuaqm1e · submitted 1997
If you do what you've always done, you'll be what you've always been.
tiny.ag/26gdqtzf · submitted 1997
If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything.
tiny.ag/ina54mbv · submitted 1997
If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will.
tiny.ag/ckgbheun · submitted 1997
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you -- but if you really make them think they'll hate you.
tiny.ag/o4053hxu · submitted 1997
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/dyhkrulm · submitted 1997
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.
tiny.ag/r2oe16bv · submitted 1997
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
tiny.ag/7vrvn3zw · submitted 1997
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
tiny.ag/gbu74gqh · submitted 1997
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
tiny.ag/zsy8hdo3 · submitted 1997
My father must have had some elementary education, for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.
tiny.ag/tde4qweo · submitted 1997
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
tiny.ag/spdfyk43 · submitted 1997
Advice is like kissing. It costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.
tiny.ag/yzyptgt2 · submitted 1997
The world's greatest heroes are the world's greatest fuck-ups.
tiny.ag/5hbi0ras · submitted 1997
Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.
David Summers, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ef1mcjvo · submitted 1997
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
tiny.ag/inmjkhxu · submitted 1997
If you hear a wise sentence or an apt phrase, commit it to your memory.
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