Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/ed9aels7 · submitted 1997
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
tiny.ag/evgupvn3 · submitted 1997
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
tiny.ag/to1nvxvz · submitted 1997
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
tiny.ag/jpox64sd · submitted 1997
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/n41eagpf · submitted 1997
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/yvzq4h9m · submitted 1997
Learning is the evolution of the mind.
tiny.ag/4hqstejw · submitted 1997
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
William Cowper, Conversation, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/jxzh2igc · submitted 1997
Does a one-legged duck swim in a circle?
tiny.ag/cgydzmit · submitted 1997
To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
tiny.ag/w4srf1nw · submitted 1997
The world is governed more by appearance than realities, so it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as it is to know it.
tiny.ag/kk23yagw · submitted 1997
Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.
Unknown, (Muslim proverb), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ybv1maqw · submitted 1997 by Gord Weitzel
One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
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/zk1y5cnl · submitted 1997
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
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/hxzyk2h6 · submitted 1997
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
tiny.ag/fyc0iesz · submitted 1997
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of Truth.
tiny.ag/z1auvpyn · submitted 1997
A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men.
tiny.ag/e8syltpb · submitted 1997
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
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