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Wisdom and Ignorance

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tiny.ag/psxefgev  ·   Fair (45 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Colin Powell, in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/mrepdhu2  ·   Fair (366 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Pooh's Little Instruction Book (hardcover)

People who don't think probably don't have brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake.

Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/jpv6wv9c  ·   Fair (340 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Pooh's Little Instruction Book (hardcover)

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/y76kfgou  ·   Fair (35 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

They talk most who have the least to say.

Mathew Prior, in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/ijzxqrho  ·   Fair (36 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust, in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/kjdwev6x  ·   Fair (851 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by Mark Richards

I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I alone know when that is.

Mark Richards, in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/hlnxvxip  ·   Fair (136 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/dy2zaj4v  ·   Fair (125 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers, in Wisdom and Ignorance