Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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301–320 (328)
tiny.ag/b5zelloy · submitted 1997
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
tiny.ag/sefftpkt · submitted 1997
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
tiny.ag/y0inete4 · submitted 1997
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
tiny.ag/cxkiivxs · submitted 1997
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/y7qkjsrf · submitted 1997
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
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/lt8nmg5i · submitted 1997
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
tiny.ag/icyaq4sy · 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/1bm5oz9e · submitted 1997
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
tiny.ag/8dhiywlp · submitted 1997
I am not young enough to know everything.
tiny.ag/dflvnw5h · 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/e7pa2qtv · 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/hurfcg6j · submitted 1997
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
tiny.ag/b3ohbca1 · submitted 1998
He who spends his time reading aphorisms of another to have one of his own, has no time or brains to have any of his own.
tiny.ag/l0kufav6 · submitted 1997
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
tiny.ag/ypvm5zmk · submitted 1997
You can observe a lot by watching.
tiny.ag/wirqwxvl · submitted 1997
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
tiny.ag/viymqgdo · submitted 1997
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am."
tiny.ag/gvfo9jw1 · submitted 1997
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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