Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/pwxgqowu · submitted 1997
We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are.
tiny.ag/jwespnab · submitted 1997
No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
tiny.ag/fkuqm4vt · submitted 1997
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
tiny.ag/h2rdoaxw · submitted 1997
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
tiny.ag/mfx0o8sc · submitted 1997
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
tiny.ag/viymqgdo · submitted 1997
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am."
tiny.ag/hrlrndwx · submitted 1997
If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.
tiny.ag/yfqykgpj · submitted 1997
Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the fool their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/n5jvquk2 · submitted 1998
Those who can do, those who can't teach, and those who can't teach teach education.
tiny.ag/qkrsbfxv · submitted 1997
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
tiny.ag/pgdfkoxt · submitted 1997
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
tiny.ag/5jqhurzz · submitted 1997
Look to the past for guidance into the future.
tiny.ag/wh6qtopk · submitted 1997
I improve on misquotation.
tiny.ag/ccrfqs3v · submitted 1997
I'm more like I am now than I ever was before.
tiny.ag/nolhz29r · submitted 1998
Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
tiny.ag/0h8wlpui · submitted 1997
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
tiny.ag/ipa5yree · 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 · submitted 1999
Watch the traffic, the light will never hit you.
tiny.ag/airwcz94 · 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
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