Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/b1luxoq2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (297 ratings) · submitted 1997
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
tiny.ag/8gzg3rxx · ★★☆☆ Fair (32 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ever notice that "what the hell" is always the right decision?
tiny.ag/uxa3t4kn · ★★☆☆ Fair (784 ratings) · submitted 1999
Reality is something you rise above.
tiny.ag/daezmd7g · ★★☆☆ Fair (277 ratings) · submitted 1997
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
tiny.ag/otl52twf · ★★☆☆ Fair (656 ratings) · submitted 1997 by James Menzies
The masses have little time to think. And how incredible is the willingness of modern man to believe.
Benito Mussolini, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/0elygtgv · ★★☆☆ Fair (157 ratings) · submitted 1997
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
James Michener, Space, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/qe3bg8q5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (61 ratings) · submitted 1997
Experience is not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens to you.
tiny.ag/zwsbjgio · ★★☆☆ Fair (48 ratings) · submitted 1997
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is that little voice at the end of the day that says: "I'll try again tomorrow."
tiny.ag/oayda2mh · ★★☆☆ Fair (33 ratings) · submitted 1997
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
tiny.ag/q7oo4vdf · ★★☆☆ Fair (71 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
tiny.ag/d3ttj2ag · ★★☆☆ Fair (374 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
tiny.ag/hvtkmq8l · ★★☆☆ Fair (154 ratings) · submitted 1997
Strong words are required for weak principles.
Doug Horton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/9exonkwl · ★★☆☆ Fair (129 ratings) · submitted 1997
Growing old is not growing up.
tiny.ag/ls2p5dcg · ★★☆☆ Fair (283 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
tiny.ag/hyedkhd2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (330 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
tiny.ag/yamidgsg · ★★☆☆ Fair (519 ratings) · submitted 1999
Ignorance does not necesarilly mean one has a lack of wisdom, for a most ignorant person can be one with much wisdom. It's "live and learn" that creates wisdom.
tiny.ag/xz5aiowd · ★★☆☆ Fair (290 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/vk93rps4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1554 ratings) · submitted 1997
We must become the change we want to see.
tiny.ag/hsbozuvd · ★★☆☆ Fair (54 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
tiny.ag/uejht2oo · ★★☆☆ Fair (234 ratings) · submitted 1997
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
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