Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/nolhz29r · ★★☆☆ Fair (126 ratings) · submitted 1998
Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
tiny.ag/xachd7wx · ★★☆☆ Fair (677 ratings) · submitted 1997
Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.
Alfred Korzybski, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/qabymet3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (24 ratings) · submitted 1997
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
tiny.ag/qiy9xdhn · ★★☆☆ Fair (1031 ratings) · 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/tcyzf8gu · ★★☆☆ Fair (1560 ratings) · submitted 1999 by David Knight
An expert is someone who is one page ahead of you in the manual.
tiny.ag/w4crozj1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
tiny.ag/gokrtfpu · ★★☆☆ Fair (563 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.
tiny.ag/htpbx3e8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (172 ratings) · submitted 1997
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
tiny.ag/hrlrndwx · ★★☆☆ Fair (216 ratings) · submitted 1997
If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.
tiny.ag/pgdfkoxt · ★★☆☆ Fair (72 ratings) · submitted 1997
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
tiny.ag/airwcz94 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1078 ratings) · submitted 1997
A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
G. C. Lichtenberg, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/0h8wlpui · ★★☆☆ Fair (43 ratings) · submitted 1997
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
tiny.ag/n5jvquk2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (228 ratings) · submitted 1998
Those who can do, those who can't teach, and those who can't teach teach education.
tiny.ag/qkrsbfxv · ★★☆☆ Fair (48 ratings) · submitted 1997
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
tiny.ag/ipa5yree · ★★☆☆ Fair (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
John A. Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/wuzygxbp · ★★☆☆ Fair (135 ratings) · submitted 1999
Watch the traffic, the light will never hit you.
tiny.ag/st9mqgf5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (99 ratings) · submitted 1997
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
tiny.ag/jp6bkest · ★★☆☆ Fair (326 ratings) · submitted 1997
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
tiny.ag/knhyutua · ★★☆☆ Fair (298 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (384 ratings) · submitted 1998
Even thinking is participation.
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