Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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141–160 (328)
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/cu6vdywe · submitted 1997
He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.
Edward Lee Thorndike, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/e9njxakr · submitted 1997
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
Kelvin Throop, III, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/e2icakpf · submitted 1997
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
tiny.ag/rupnqvyt · submitted 1997
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henrik Tikkanen, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
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/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/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.
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