Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/yjcobkfn · submitted 1997
No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid.
tiny.ag/pxfadpln · submitted 1997
Never give advice -- a wise man won't need it, a fool won't heed it.
tiny.ag/as0knvco · submitted 1997
Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference.
tiny.ag/njl5gsre · submitted 1997
Live to learn... forget... and learn again.
tiny.ag/slupay0r · submitted 1997
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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/qiy9xdhn · submitted 1997
To "be" means to be related.
Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/st9mqgf5 · submitted 1997
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
tiny.ag/tcyzf8gu · submitted 1999 by David Knight
An expert is someone who is one page ahead of you in the manual.
tiny.ag/w4crozj1 · submitted 1997
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
tiny.ag/jp6bkest · submitted 1997
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
tiny.ag/knhyutua · submitted 1997
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John F. Kennedy, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/kgnpd9wc · submitted 1998
Even thinking is participation.
tiny.ag/fg9hhljz · submitted 1997
Two things I cannot understand: myself and others.
tiny.ag/peqmtrl9 · submitted 1997
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
tiny.ag/pojc3ikm · submitted 1997
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
tiny.ag/vjcm5iep · submitted 1997
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
tiny.ag/jdfanm7k · submitted 1998
Lately I've found that if it weren't for stereotypes, conversation would be much more difficult for the closed-minded.
tiny.ag/1jtdasvn · submitted 1997
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
tiny.ag/23goyhuk · submitted 1997
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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