Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/xachd7wx · ★★☆☆ Fair (677 ratings) · submitted 1997
Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.
Alfred Korzybski, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
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/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/jp6bkest · ★★☆☆ Fair (326 ratings) · submitted 1997
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
tiny.ag/knhyutua · ★★☆☆ Fair (298 ratings) · submitted 1997
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John F. Kennedy, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/st9mqgf5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (99 ratings) · submitted 1997
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
tiny.ag/k0emebpg · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 2011 by peter
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.
tiny.ag/kk23yagw · ★★☆☆ Fair (213 ratings) · submitted 1997
Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.
Unknown, (Muslim proverb), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ygbwscup · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can tell a lot about a person by looking at what kind of people are his friends and children.
tiny.ag/mfa7pfik · ★★☆☆ Fair (323 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Dave Supulski
You are only young once... but you can be immature your whole life.
tiny.ag/muxgqopb · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Unknown, (Greek proverb), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/bzeqsrni · ★★☆☆ Fair (264 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wise men make proverbs; fools repeat them.
tiny.ag/kov3nzmi · ★★☆☆ Fair (209 ratings) · submitted 1997
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
tiny.ag/tbra32py · ★★☆☆ Fair (306 ratings) · submitted 1997
Use soft words and hard arguments.
tiny.ag/pkfmdhte · ★★☆☆ Fair (210 ratings) · submitted 1997
When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains knowledge, he is an ordinary man.
Unknown, (Zen saying), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/voc2uwcw · ★★☆☆ Fair (262 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best defense against logic is ignorance.
tiny.ag/1iteoxru · ★★☆☆ Fair (269 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
tiny.ag/bueg0ydy · ★★☆☆ Fair (464 ratings) · submitted 1999 by S. Gilmary Beagle
The dead and the stupid never change their opinions.
tiny.ag/w4srf1nw · ★★☆☆ Fair (225 ratings) · submitted 1997
The world is governed more by appearance than realities, so it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as it is to know it.
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