Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
61–80 (328)
tiny.ag/cgydzmit · ★★☆☆ Fair (450 ratings) · submitted 1997
To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
tiny.ag/ed9aels7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (407 ratings) · submitted 1997
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
tiny.ag/cnifx1o4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (248 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
tiny.ag/shpmv1fs · ★★☆☆ Fair (323 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.
tiny.ag/mmclufba · ★★☆☆ Fair (310 ratings) · 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/ieyckbys · ★★☆☆ Fair (563 ratings) · submitted 1997
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
tiny.ag/fj2gtz79 · ★★☆☆ Fair (223 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Robert Burton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/satkf7ke · ★★☆☆ Fair (107 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
tiny.ag/gesq5cpw · ★★☆☆ Fair (357 ratings) · submitted 1997
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
tiny.ag/ultj3i4v · ★★☆☆ Fair (263 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
tiny.ag/okwhuss2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (91 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man lives by believing in something, not by debating and arguing about many things.
tiny.ag/v1hbaimf · ★★☆☆ Fair (95 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
tiny.ag/rv5rwqlp · ★★☆☆ Fair (164 ratings) · submitted 1998
"Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/wqs4yam6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (94 ratings) · submitted 1997
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."
tiny.ag/bqie1hj5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (651 ratings) · submitted 1998
An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.
tiny.ag/4ezjejb0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (97 ratings) · submitted 1997
You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.
tiny.ag/wonmj58n · ★★☆☆ Fair (1030 ratings) · submitted 1999 by David B. Cole, Jr.
Reality is subordinate to perception.
tiny.ag/knybox5w · ★★☆☆ Fair (94 ratings) · submitted 1997
Style is an easy way of saying complicated things.
tiny.ag/1b7ttrhh · ★★☆☆ Fair (203 ratings) · submitted 1997
We find comfort among those who agree with us; growth among those who don't.
tiny.ag/li6watos · ★★☆☆ Fair (263 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
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