Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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101–120 (328)
tiny.ag/dwmxy2kw · submitted 1997
Education is civil defense against media fallout.
tiny.ag/3zbbml0p · submitted 1997
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
tiny.ag/fkuqm4vt · submitted 1997
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
tiny.ag/jwespnab · submitted 1997
No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
tiny.ag/h8oiwuf7 · submitted 1997
Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it.
tiny.ag/njk4cbzp · submitted 1997
Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.
tiny.ag/xjb1ypdu · submitted 1997
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Unknown, (Chinese proverb), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ls0zmykb · submitted 1997 by Mark Dawson
However hot the water is, the fire still goes out.
tiny.ag/7gpwjccm · submitted 1997
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. And inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
tiny.ag/qkrsbfxv · submitted 1997
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
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/pgdfkoxt · submitted 1997
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
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
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/fajyrg9v · submitted 1997
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
tiny.ag/z1auvpyn · submitted 1997
A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men.
tiny.ag/wuzygxbp · submitted 1999
Watch the traffic, the light will never hit you.
tiny.ag/zk1y5cnl · submitted 1997
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
tiny.ag/n5jvquk2 · submitted 1998
Those who can do, those who can't teach, and those who can't teach teach education.
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