Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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41–60 (328)
tiny.ag/hsipkpnw · ★★☆☆ Fair (160 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
tiny.ag/o7ofzkdq · ★★☆☆ Fair (109 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you can read this, thank a teacher.
tiny.ag/mwma270i · ★★☆☆ Fair (89 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you believe everything you read, you'd better not read.
Unknown, (Japanese proverb), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/eanvvuth · ★★☆☆ Fair (111 ratings) · submitted 1997
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
tiny.ag/6jbweh3g · ★★☆☆ Fair (963 ratings) · submitted 1999 by John Cannizzaro
If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
tiny.ag/qksor8sl · ★★☆☆ Fair (148 ratings) · submitted 1997
I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.
tiny.ag/ls0zmykb · ★★☆☆ Fair (142 ratings) · submitted 1997 by Mark Dawson
However hot the water is, the fire still goes out.
tiny.ag/xjb1ypdu · ★★☆☆ Fair (126 ratings) · submitted 1997
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Unknown, (Chinese proverb), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/xzi3am2h · ★★☆☆ Fair (100 ratings) · submitted 1997
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
tiny.ag/njk4cbzp · ★★☆☆ Fair (113 ratings) · submitted 1997
Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.
tiny.ag/lveycuka · ★★☆☆ Fair (129 ratings) · submitted 1998
Just because you've been wiping your ass for twenty years, that doesn't mean you've been doing it right.
John Winsett, (said at a training seminar), in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/hxzyk2h6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (100 ratings) · submitted 1997
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
tiny.ag/fyc0iesz · ★★☆☆ Fair (73 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of Truth.
tiny.ag/airwcz94 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1078 ratings) · submitted 1997
A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
G. C. Lichtenberg, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/izsokq3v · ★★☆☆ Fair (96 ratings) · submitted 1997
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.
tiny.ag/qhswaupg · ★★☆☆ Fair (1040 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
tiny.ag/0h8wlpui · ★★☆☆ Fair (43 ratings) · submitted 1997
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
tiny.ag/fajyrg9v · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
tiny.ag/iurrlmux · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
tiny.ag/hevntg1m · ★★☆☆ Fair (160 ratings) · submitted 1997
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. Williams, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Work and Recreation
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