Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/dzuvvei3 · submitted 1997
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
tiny.ag/63vctqjk · submitted 1997
Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
tiny.ag/s6frnocs · submitted 1997
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato, The Republic, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/vp1lnrlz · submitted 1997
Everything you can imagine is real.
tiny.ag/ipsoc5wu · submitted 1997
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
tiny.ag/6kh8ljvj · submitted 1997
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
tiny.ag/viymqgdo · submitted 1997
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am."
tiny.ag/wirqwxvl · submitted 1997
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
tiny.ag/ypvm5zmk · submitted 1997
You can observe a lot by watching.
tiny.ag/l0kufav6 · submitted 1997
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
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/b3ohbca1 · submitted 1998
He who spends his time reading aphorisms of another to have one of his own, has no time or brains to have any of his own.
tiny.ag/kqr3auag · submitted 1997
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
tiny.ag/l2qkzwis · submitted 1997
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
Robert J. Oppenheimer, (on Albert Einstein), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/pwxgqowu · submitted 1997
We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are.
tiny.ag/h2rdoaxw · submitted 1997
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
tiny.ag/mfx0o8sc · submitted 1997
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
tiny.ag/z91tc0go · 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.
tiny.ag/mchnry1s · submitted 1997
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
tiny.ag/o1adwrjp · submitted 1997
Never forget what you need to remember.
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