Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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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/ls0zmykb · submitted 1997 by Mark Dawson
However hot the water is, the fire still goes out.
tiny.ag/6jbweh3g · submitted 1999 by John Cannizzaro
If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
tiny.ag/hsipkpnw · submitted 1997
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
tiny.ag/o7ofzkdq · submitted 1997
If you can read this, thank a teacher.
tiny.ag/qksor8sl · submitted 1997
I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.
tiny.ag/vhuaqm1e · submitted 1997
If you do what you've always done, you'll be what you've always been.
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/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/2o4terst · submitted 1999 by LEStephey
A small journey begins with one step and ends with another.
tiny.ag/4rgim10d · submitted 1997
A single fact can spoil a good argument.
tiny.ag/llsj2qct · submitted 1997
A pseudo-intellectual is a person who knows what "pseudo" means.
tiny.ag/lkf1oudx · submitted 1997
A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.
tiny.ag/e8syltpb · submitted 1997
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
tiny.ag/hevntg1m · submitted 1997
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. Williams, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/iurrlmux · submitted 1997
I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
tiny.ag/lveycuka · submitted 1998
Just because you've been wiping your ass for twenty years, that doesn't mean you've been doing it right.
John Winsett, (said at a training seminar), in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/z1auvpyn · submitted 1997
A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men.
tiny.ag/fajyrg9v · submitted 1997
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
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