Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/njk4cbzp · submitted 1997
Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.
tiny.ag/xzi3am2h · submitted 1997
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
tiny.ag/qhswaupg · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
tiny.ag/izsokq3v · submitted 1997
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.
tiny.ag/2o4terst · submitted 1999 by LEStephey
A small journey begins with one step and ends with another.
tiny.ag/4rgim10d · submitted 1997
A single fact can spoil a good argument.
tiny.ag/llsj2qct · submitted 1997
A pseudo-intellectual is a person who knows what "pseudo" means.
tiny.ag/lkf1oudx · submitted 1997
A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.
tiny.ag/e8syltpb · submitted 1997
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
tiny.ag/z1auvpyn · submitted 1997
A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men.
tiny.ag/fajyrg9v · submitted 1997
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
tiny.ag/zk1y5cnl · submitted 1997
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
tiny.ag/fyc0iesz · submitted 1997
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of Truth.
tiny.ag/hxzyk2h6 · submitted 1997
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
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/iurrlmux · submitted 1997
I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
tiny.ag/1bm5oz9e · submitted 1997
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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/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."
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