Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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101–120 (328)
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/1bm5oz9e · submitted 1997
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
tiny.ag/8dhiywlp · submitted 1997
I am not young enough to know everything.
tiny.ag/ahogqesm · submitted 1997
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
tiny.ag/xozwtgoz · submitted 1997
Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/vjcm5iep · submitted 1997
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
tiny.ag/hxzyk2h6 · submitted 1997
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
tiny.ag/peqmtrl9 · submitted 1997
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
tiny.ag/lveycuka · submitted 1998
Just because you've been wiping your ass for twenty years, that doesn't mean you've been doing it right.
John Winsett, (said at a training seminar), in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/fg9hhljz · submitted 1997
Two things I cannot understand: myself and others.
tiny.ag/iurrlmux · submitted 1997
I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
tiny.ag/hevntg1m · submitted 1997
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. Williams, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/kgnpd9wc · submitted 1998
Even thinking is participation.
tiny.ag/dflvnw5h · submitted 1997
I was asked by the customs if I had anything to declare. I said: Yes, I'd like to declare -- I'm a genius!
tiny.ag/e7pa2qtv · submitted 1997
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/to1nvxvz · submitted 1997
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
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/jdfanm7k · submitted 1998
Lately I've found that if it weren't for stereotypes, conversation would be much more difficult for the closed-minded.
tiny.ag/egvuw4ni · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
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