Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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141–160 (328)
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/h8oiwuf7 · submitted 1997
Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it.
tiny.ag/jwespnab · submitted 1997
No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
tiny.ag/fkuqm4vt · submitted 1997
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
tiny.ag/3zbbml0p · submitted 1997
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
tiny.ag/dwmxy2kw · submitted 1997
Education is civil defense against media fallout.
tiny.ag/kqr3auag · submitted 1997
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
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/f4ckcyx8 · submitted 1997
If you never change your mind, why have one?
tiny.ag/52bhttiz · submitted 1997
Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/jpox64sd · submitted 1997
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/n41eagpf · submitted 1997
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/yvzq4h9m · submitted 1997
Learning is the evolution of the mind.
tiny.ag/qol2sxws · submitted 1997
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein -- it rejects it.
tiny.ag/0elygtgv · submitted 1997
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
James Michener, Space, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/hurfcg6j · submitted 1997
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
tiny.ag/mchnry1s · submitted 1997
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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/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/4hqstejw · submitted 1997
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
William Cowper, Conversation, in Wisdom and Ignorance
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