Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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281–300 (328)
tiny.ag/sutptyxa · submitted 1997
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
tiny.ag/chnlsua0 · submitted 1997
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
tiny.ag/hksesmq7 · submitted 1997
Education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
tiny.ag/0hselcjm · submitted 1997
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
tiny.ag/c9ykbift · submitted 1997
When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
tiny.ag/b8pl5th4 · submitted 1997
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
tiny.ag/o4053hxu · submitted 1997
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/dyhkrulm · submitted 1997
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.
tiny.ag/r2oe16bv · submitted 1997
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
tiny.ag/7vrvn3zw · submitted 1997
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
tiny.ag/gbu74gqh · submitted 1997
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
tiny.ag/5l9lxr7a · submitted 1997
If, while you are in school, there is a shortage of qualified personnel in a particular field, then by the time you graduate with the necessary qualifications, that field's employment is glutted.
tiny.ag/slywabar · submitted 1997
Only the educated are free.
tiny.ag/syqg9cuz · submitted 1997
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
tiny.ag/fbo95pnn · submitted 1997
In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
tiny.ag/b8jzieda · submitted 1997 by David Epstein
Do two wrongs make a right? Yes. The right to be wrong.
tiny.ag/6rk1jdhd · submitted 1997
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
tiny.ag/tzkxgb3b · submitted 1997
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
tiny.ag/b5zelloy · submitted 1997
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
tiny.ag/losztnwc · submitted 1997
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
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