Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/kiytmq1q · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities that I have visited, all my ancestors... Perhaps I would have liked to be my father, who wrote but has the decency of not publishing.
tiny.ag/oy08nxhf · submitted 1998 by Marc Spierings
To use a method is to compare the realm of mind to a stool. The true thinker walks freely.
Godfried Bomans, De avonturen van Bill Clifford, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/vkcynult · submitted 1997
Upon the education of the people the fate of this country depends.
tiny.ag/hurfcg6j · submitted 1997
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
tiny.ag/b3ohbca1 · submitted 1998
He who spends his time reading aphorisms of another to have one of his own, has no time or brains to have any of his own.
tiny.ag/l0kufav6 · submitted 1997
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
tiny.ag/ypvm5zmk · submitted 1997
You can observe a lot by watching.
tiny.ag/wirqwxvl · submitted 1997
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
tiny.ag/t8hgtc1d · submitted 1997
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
W. Edwards Deming, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/trlcjdxx · submitted 1997
The most valuable and useful of all talents and abilities is that of never using two words or descriptions when one will do or suffice.
tiny.ag/f4ckcyx8 · submitted 1997
If you never change your mind, why have one?
tiny.ag/z91tc0go · submitted 1997
It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
tiny.ag/mchnry1s · submitted 1997
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
tiny.ag/o1adwrjp · submitted 1997
Never forget what you need to remember.
tiny.ag/pgsxbect · submitted 1998
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it's been though a blender first.
Les Barker, An Infinite Number of Occasional Tables, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ef1mcjvo · submitted 1997
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
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
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/hk1fnrrg · submitted 1997
The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.
tiny.ag/bucadpxy · submitted 1997
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, "I don't know."
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