Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/t8hgtc1d · ★★☆☆ Fair (92 ratings) · submitted 1997
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
W. Edwards Deming, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/f4ckcyx8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (41 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you never change your mind, why have one?
tiny.ag/ef1mcjvo · ★★☆☆ Fair (138 ratings) · submitted 1997
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
tiny.ag/zsy8hdo3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (236 ratings) · submitted 1997
My father must have had some elementary education, for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.
tiny.ag/yvzq4h9m · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
Learning is the evolution of the mind.
tiny.ag/n41eagpf · ★★☆☆ Fair (779 ratings) · 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/jpox64sd · ★★☆☆ Fair (774 ratings) · 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/52bhttiz · ★★☆☆ Fair (694 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/tde4qweo · ★★☆☆ Fair (247 ratings) · submitted 1997
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
tiny.ag/spdfyk43 · ★★☆☆ Fair (25 ratings) · submitted 1997
Advice is like kissing. It costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.
tiny.ag/aj3tzjw2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (39 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.
tiny.ag/hk1fnrrg · ★★☆☆ Fair (23 ratings) · submitted 1997
The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.
tiny.ag/0rczsoyu · ★★☆☆ Fair (22 ratings) · 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/tf9fn0vv · ★★☆☆ Fair (73 ratings) · submitted 1997
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
tiny.ag/yzyptgt2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (61 ratings) · submitted 1997
The world's greatest heroes are the world's greatest fuck-ups.
tiny.ag/inmjkhxu · ★★☆☆ Fair (24 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you hear a wise sentence or an apt phrase, commit it to your memory.
tiny.ag/ejvaborl · ★★☆☆ Fair (259 ratings) · submitted 1997
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
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
tiny.ag/bqie1hj5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (651 ratings) · submitted 1998
An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.
tiny.ag/cnifx1o4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (248 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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