Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/vk93rps4 · submitted 1997
We must become the change we want to see.
tiny.ag/qwlnrjbr · submitted 1997
Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.
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/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/n5jvquk2 · submitted 1998
Those who can do, those who can't teach, and those who can't teach teach education.
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/rci53dro · submitted 1997
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
tiny.ag/eqpdfyuw · submitted 1997
Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement.
tiny.ag/wagakfth · submitted 1999
Learning to shrug is the beginning of wisdom.
Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/kl2zmoog · submitted 1997 by Barry Cantor
Today's children are required to learn what most people in former times were forbidden to know.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Wisdom and Ignorance
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