Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
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tiny.ag/ipa5yree · ★★☆☆ Fair (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
John A. Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/wuzygxbp · ★★☆☆ Fair (135 ratings) · submitted 1999
Watch the traffic, the light will never hit you.
tiny.ag/qkrsbfxv · ★★☆☆ Fair (48 ratings) · submitted 1997
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
tiny.ag/e7pa2qtv · ★★☆☆ Fair (554 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/dflvnw5h · ★★☆☆ Fair (438 ratings) · submitted 1997
I was asked by the customs if I had anything to declare. I said: Yes, I'd like to declare -- I'm a genius!
tiny.ag/8dhiywlp · ★★☆☆ Fair (458 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am not young enough to know everything.
tiny.ag/1bm5oz9e · ★★☆☆ Fair (461 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
tiny.ag/icyaq4sy · ★★☆☆ Fair (116 ratings) · 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/lt8nmg5i · ★★☆☆ Fair (124 ratings) · submitted 1997
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
tiny.ag/fkuqm4vt · ★★☆☆ Fair (88 ratings) · submitted 1997
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
tiny.ag/jwespnab · ★★☆☆ Fair (36 ratings) · submitted 1997
No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
tiny.ag/h8oiwuf7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (319 ratings) · submitted 1997
Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it.
tiny.ag/7gpwjccm · ★★☆☆ Fair (236 ratings) · 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/n5jvquk2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (228 ratings) · submitted 1998
Those who can do, those who can't teach, and those who can't teach teach education.
tiny.ag/qiy9xdhn · ★★☆☆ Fair (1031 ratings) · submitted 1997
To "be" means to be related.
Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/gokrtfpu · ★★☆☆ Fair (563 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.
tiny.ag/tcyzf8gu · ★★☆☆ Fair (1560 ratings) · submitted 1999 by David Knight
An expert is someone who is one page ahead of you in the manual.
tiny.ag/w4crozj1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
tiny.ag/8nji6wzs · ★★☆☆ Fair (273 ratings) · submitted 1997
'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
tiny.ag/vjcm5iep · ★★☆☆ Fair (300 ratings) · submitted 1997
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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