Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/ldizacqu · submitted 1997
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Salvor Hardin), in War and Peace and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/s0wemj5y · submitted 1997
A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.
tiny.ag/uejht2oo · submitted 1997
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
tiny.ag/1bbjwdu7 · submitted 1997
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
Ellen Glasgow, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/z0pv1omm · submitted 1997
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
tiny.ag/ufko7fwv · submitted 1997
I do not know myself and God forbid that I should.
tiny.ag/juocdkwi · submitted 1997
Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it, and have not reached my goal.
tiny.ag/5jqhurzz · submitted 1997
Look to the past for guidance into the future.
tiny.ag/wh6qtopk · submitted 1997
I improve on misquotation.
tiny.ag/ccrfqs3v · submitted 1997
I'm more like I am now than I ever was before.
tiny.ag/6qzazlkw · submitted 1997
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
tiny.ag/hurfcg6j · submitted 1997
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
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/l0kufav6 · submitted 1997
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
tiny.ag/ypvm5zmk · submitted 1997
You can observe a lot by watching.
tiny.ag/wirqwxvl · submitted 1997
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
tiny.ag/mmclufba · submitted 1997
Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject... The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
tiny.ag/ieyckbys · submitted 1997
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
tiny.ag/fj2gtz79 · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Robert Burton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/x06lwkz4 · submitted 1997
Life's tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
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