Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/gbo6vshj · ★★☆☆ Fair (55 ratings) · submitted 1997
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
tiny.ag/s0wemj5y · ★★☆☆ Fair (25 ratings) · submitted 1997
A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.
tiny.ag/ldizacqu · ★★☆☆ Fair (337 ratings) · submitted 1997
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Salvor Hardin), in War and Peace and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/soebrnq6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (286 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Sam Brown, (Washington Post, 1977), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ajjiywbg · ★★☆☆ Fair (230 ratings) · submitted 1997
It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.
tiny.ag/hczjqg3z · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
tiny.ag/mmclufba · ★★☆☆ Fair (310 ratings) · submitted 1997
Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject... The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
tiny.ag/ieyckbys · ★★☆☆ Fair (563 ratings) · submitted 1997
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
tiny.ag/fj2gtz79 · ★★☆☆ Fair (223 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Robert Burton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/mfa7pfik · ★★☆☆ Fair (323 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Dave Supulski
You are only young once... but you can be immature your whole life.
tiny.ag/muxgqopb · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Unknown, (Greek proverb), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ygbwscup · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can tell a lot about a person by looking at what kind of people are his friends and children.
tiny.ag/bzeqsrni · ★★☆☆ Fair (264 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wise men make proverbs; fools repeat them.
tiny.ag/pkfmdhte · ★★☆☆ Fair (210 ratings) · submitted 1997
When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains knowledge, he is an ordinary man.
Unknown, (Zen saying), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/kov3nzmi · ★★☆☆ Fair (209 ratings) · submitted 1997
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
tiny.ag/tbra32py · ★★☆☆ Fair (306 ratings) · submitted 1997
Use soft words and hard arguments.
tiny.ag/kk23yagw · ★★☆☆ Fair (213 ratings) · submitted 1997
Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.
Unknown, (Muslim proverb), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/slupay0r · ★★☆☆ Fair (166 ratings) · submitted 1997
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
tiny.ag/w4srf1nw · ★★☆☆ Fair (225 ratings) · 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/9zpbxeoc · ★★☆☆ Fair (231 ratings) · submitted 1997
Some people speak from experience; others, from experience, don't speak.
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