Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/if4vw3y9 · submitted 1997
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin, in Science and Religion 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/3laiwzst · submitted 1997
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
tiny.ag/ahogqesm · submitted 1997
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
tiny.ag/bucadpxy · submitted 1997
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, "I don't know."
tiny.ag/jttv8uoi · submitted 1997
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
tiny.ag/wf0milq1 · submitted 1997
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
tiny.ag/8egicznw · submitted 1997
You have to be an intellectual to believe such nonsense. No ordinary man could be such a fool.
tiny.ag/qy4zssfi · submitted 1997
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
tiny.ag/dy2zaj4v · submitted 1997
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
tiny.ag/hlnxvxip · submitted 1997
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
tiny.ag/kjdwev6x · submitted 1999 by Mark Richards
I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I alone know when that is.
tiny.ag/ijzxqrho · submitted 1997
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
tiny.ag/y76kfgou · submitted 1997
They talk most who have the least to say.
tiny.ag/jpv6wv9c · submitted 1997
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/mrepdhu2 · submitted 1997
People who don't think probably don't have brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake.
Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/psxefgev · submitted 1997
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
tiny.ag/l0ggy3oy · submitted 1999
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope, (from Golden Treasury of the Familiar), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/pdln3czv · submitted 1997
You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.
Dorothy Parker, (when asked to use the word "horticulture" in a sentence), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ctg0dc6w · submitted 1999 by Bill Masterson
All generalizations are false, including this one.
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