Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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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/hk1fnrrg · submitted 1997
The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.
tiny.ag/tf9fn0vv · submitted 1997
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
tiny.ag/0rczsoyu · submitted 1997
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
tiny.ag/inmjkhxu · submitted 1997
If you hear a wise sentence or an apt phrase, commit it to your memory.
tiny.ag/aj3tzjw2 · submitted 1997
Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.
tiny.ag/yzyptgt2 · submitted 1997
The world's greatest heroes are the world's greatest fuck-ups.
tiny.ag/spdfyk43 · submitted 1997
Advice is like kissing. It costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.
tiny.ag/cgydzmit · submitted 1997
To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
tiny.ag/ed9aels7 · submitted 1997
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
tiny.ag/shpmv1fs · submitted 1997
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.
tiny.ag/cnifx1o4 · submitted 1997
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
tiny.ag/4ezjejb0 · submitted 1997
You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.
tiny.ag/wonmj58n · submitted 1999 by David B. Cole, Jr.
Reality is subordinate to perception.
tiny.ag/knybox5w · submitted 1997
Style is an easy way of saying complicated things.
tiny.ag/bku8tth7 · submitted 1997
If we are the only intelligent life in the universe, at least there's a finite number of idiots.
tiny.ag/jxzh2igc · submitted 1997
Does a one-legged duck swim in a circle?
tiny.ag/4hqstejw · submitted 1997
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
William Cowper, Conversation, in Wisdom and Ignorance
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
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