Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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241–260 (328)
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/3laiwzst · submitted 1997
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
tiny.ag/g8ncpo30 · submitted 1997
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read.
tiny.ag/ahogqesm · submitted 1997
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
tiny.ag/bucadpxy · submitted 1997
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, "I don't know."
tiny.ag/r0a9zwmr · submitted 1997
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
tiny.ag/byjgwlzg · submitted 1997
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
tiny.ag/uvmow3r4 · submitted 1997
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
tiny.ag/zsy8hdo3 · submitted 1997
My father must have had some elementary education, for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.
tiny.ag/tde4qweo · submitted 1997
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
tiny.ag/spdfyk43 · submitted 1997
Advice is like kissing. It costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.
tiny.ag/yzyptgt2 · submitted 1997
The world's greatest heroes are the world's greatest fuck-ups.
tiny.ag/aj3tzjw2 · submitted 1997
Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.
tiny.ag/inmjkhxu · submitted 1997
If you hear a wise sentence or an apt phrase, commit it to your memory.
tiny.ag/0rczsoyu · submitted 1997
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
tiny.ag/ipsoc5wu · submitted 1997
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
tiny.ag/vp1lnrlz · submitted 1997
Everything you can imagine is real.
tiny.ag/s6frnocs · submitted 1997
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato, The Republic, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/63vctqjk · submitted 1997
Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
tiny.ag/dzuvvei3 · submitted 1997
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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