Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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301–320 (328)
tiny.ag/jdfanm7k · ★★☆☆ Fair (238 ratings) · submitted 1998
Lately I've found that if it weren't for stereotypes, conversation would be much more difficult for the closed-minded.
tiny.ag/23goyhuk · ★★☆☆ Fair (33 ratings) · submitted 1997
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
tiny.ag/1jtdasvn · ★★☆☆ Fair (1273 ratings) · submitted 1997
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
tiny.ag/asaliq9g · ★★☆☆ Fair (3066 ratings) · submitted 1997
I live for books.
Thomas Jefferson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/gesq5cpw · ★★☆☆ Fair (357 ratings) · submitted 1997
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
tiny.ag/ultj3i4v · ★★☆☆ Fair (263 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
tiny.ag/okwhuss2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (91 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man lives by believing in something, not by debating and arguing about many things.
tiny.ag/v1hbaimf · ★★☆☆ Fair (95 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
tiny.ag/rv5rwqlp · ★★☆☆ Fair (164 ratings) · submitted 1998
"Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/wqs4yam6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (94 ratings) · submitted 1997
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."
tiny.ag/gvfo9jw1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (547 ratings) · 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.
tiny.ag/yamidgsg · ★★☆☆ Fair (519 ratings) · submitted 1999
Ignorance does not necesarilly mean one has a lack of wisdom, for a most ignorant person can be one with much wisdom. It's "live and learn" that creates wisdom.
tiny.ag/hyedkhd2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (330 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
tiny.ag/ls2p5dcg · ★★☆☆ Fair (283 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
tiny.ag/9exonkwl · ★★☆☆ Fair (129 ratings) · submitted 1997
Growing old is not growing up.
tiny.ag/klphp6u7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
tiny.ag/satkf7ke · ★★☆☆ Fair (107 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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/ldizacqu · ★★☆☆ Fair (337 ratings) · submitted 1997
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Salvor Hardin), in War and Peace and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/s0wemj5y · ★★☆☆ Fair (25 ratings) · submitted 1997
A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.
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