Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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101–120 (328)
tiny.ag/bueg0ydy · submitted 1999 by S. Gilmary Beagle
The dead and the stupid never change their opinions.
tiny.ag/htpbx3e8 · submitted 1997
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
tiny.ag/gokrtfpu · 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/qabymet3 · submitted 1997
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
tiny.ag/qiy9xdhn · 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 · submitted 1999 by David Knight
An expert is someone who is one page ahead of you in the manual.
tiny.ag/w4crozj1 · submitted 1997
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
tiny.ag/jp6bkest · submitted 1997
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
tiny.ag/knhyutua · 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/mmclufba · 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/hczjqg3z · submitted 1997
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
tiny.ag/ajjiywbg · submitted 1997
It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.
tiny.ag/soebrnq6 · 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/9zpbxeoc · submitted 1997
Some people speak from experience; others, from experience, don't speak.
tiny.ag/voc2uwcw · submitted 1997
The best defense against logic is ignorance.
tiny.ag/qgiakofl · submitted 1999 by Johan
Sharks mainly attack when your're wet.
tiny.ag/sshro1au · submitted 1997 by Gord Weitzel
Policy is a guide to the wise and a rule to the fool.
Unknown, (expression used in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/2j17qytc · submitted 1999
One thing is one thing. Another thing is another thing.
tiny.ag/yjcobkfn · submitted 1997
No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid.
tiny.ag/pxfadpln · submitted 1997
Never give advice -- a wise man won't need it, a fool won't heed it.
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