Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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301–320 (328)
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/y5vxd29g · ★★☆☆ Fair (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
tiny.ag/lnv4og3o · ★★☆☆ Fair (108 ratings) · submitted 1998
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
tiny.ag/lbtrv5my · ★★☆☆ Fair (37 ratings) · submitted 1997
I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.
tiny.ag/klphp6u7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
tiny.ag/6hcujeiu · ★★☆☆ Fair (320 ratings) · submitted 1997
Beware the man of one book.
St. Thomas Aquinas, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/hfx4m7bz · ★★☆☆ Fair (555 ratings) · submitted 1998 by David Shorr
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination
Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon, XCIV, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/2ljggwxr · ★★☆☆ Fair (337 ratings) · submitted 1997
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Aristophanes, The Birds, 414 B.C., in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/dc6pcq9o · ★★☆☆ Fair (425 ratings) · submitted 1997
All men naturally desire knowledge.
tiny.ag/6wydulw8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (348 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
tiny.ag/khtxcyl0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (389 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
tiny.ag/q2cvf8pi · ★★☆☆ Fair (391 ratings) · submitted 1997
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
tiny.ag/6lar7dwe · ★★☆☆ Fair (870 ratings) · submitted 1997
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
tiny.ag/oujwgybq · ★★☆☆ Fair (355 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wit is educated insolence.
tiny.ag/evgupvn3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (546 ratings) · submitted 1997
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
tiny.ag/to1nvxvz · ★★☆☆ Fair (131 ratings) · submitted 1997
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
tiny.ag/pgsxbect · ★★☆☆ Fair (179 ratings) · submitted 1998
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it's been though a blender first.
Les Barker, An Infinite Number of Occasional Tables, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/o1adwrjp · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never forget what you need to remember.
tiny.ag/mchnry1s · ★★☆☆ Fair (99 ratings) · submitted 1997
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
tiny.ag/z91tc0go · ★★☆☆ Fair (430 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
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