Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/gesq5cpw · submitted 1997
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
tiny.ag/satkf7ke · submitted 1997
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
tiny.ag/pgsxbect · 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/fj2gtz79 · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Robert Burton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/o1adwrjp · submitted 1997
Never forget what you need to remember.
tiny.ag/to1nvxvz · submitted 1997
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
tiny.ag/evgupvn3 · submitted 1997
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
tiny.ag/oujwgybq · submitted 1997
Wit is educated insolence.
tiny.ag/6lar7dwe · 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/q2cvf8pi · submitted 1997
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
tiny.ag/6wydulw8 · submitted 1997
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
tiny.ag/ieyckbys · submitted 1997
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
tiny.ag/klphp6u7 · submitted 1997
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
tiny.ag/hfx4m7bz · submitted 1998 by David Shorr
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination
Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon, XCIV, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/khtxcyl0 · submitted 1997
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
tiny.ag/2ljggwxr · submitted 1997
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Aristophanes, The Birds, 414 B.C., in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/dc6pcq9o · submitted 1997
All men naturally desire knowledge.
tiny.ag/8egicznw · submitted 1997
You have to be an intellectual to believe such nonsense. No ordinary man could be such a fool.
tiny.ag/3zbbml0p · submitted 1997
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
tiny.ag/h8oiwuf7 · submitted 1997
Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it.
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