Wisdom and Ignorance
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tiny.ag/kteay1fd · submitted 1997
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
tiny.ag/1teeow0f · submitted 1997
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/lt8nmg5i · submitted 1997
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
tiny.ag/icyaq4sy · submitted 1997
Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.
tiny.ag/bucadpxy · submitted 1997
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, "I don't know."
tiny.ag/t9jmvbpa · submitted 1997
A witty saying proves nothing.
tiny.ag/hcrgr6oa · submitted 1997
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
tiny.ag/svogwyfm · submitted 1997
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
tiny.ag/uvmow3r4 · submitted 1997
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
tiny.ag/byjgwlzg · submitted 1997
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
tiny.ag/r0a9zwmr · submitted 1997
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
tiny.ag/ahogqesm · submitted 1997
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
tiny.ag/g8ncpo30 · submitted 1997
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read.
tiny.ag/3laiwzst · submitted 1997
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
tiny.ag/dkwycxon · submitted 1997
Clear writers assume, with a pessimism born of experience, that whatever isn't plainly stated the reader will invariably misconstrue.
tiny.ag/if4vw3y9 · submitted 1997
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/jttv8uoi · submitted 1997
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
tiny.ag/rupnqvyt · submitted 1997
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henrik Tikkanen, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/5hbi0ras · submitted 1997
Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.
David Summers, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/s2pjkz1e · submitted 1997
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
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