Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/4mch5yty · submitted 1997
I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
tiny.ag/mgn8bwur · submitted 1997
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
tiny.ag/hczjqg3z · submitted 1997
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
tiny.ag/mmclufba · submitted 1997
Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject... The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
tiny.ag/ajjiywbg · submitted 1997
It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.
tiny.ag/soebrnq6 · submitted 1997
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Sam Brown, (Washington Post, 1977), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/eqpdfyuw · submitted 1997
Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement.
tiny.ag/rci53dro · submitted 1997
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
tiny.ag/kl2zmoog · submitted 1997 by Barry Cantor
Today's children are required to learn what most people in former times were forbidden to know.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ow2rizet · submitted 1998
In order to keep an open mind, I am trying to avoid learning anything.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/wagakfth · submitted 1999
Learning to shrug is the beginning of wisdom.
Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/sr7yv9lh · submitted 1997
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
tiny.ag/ezridljt · submitted 1997
The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided by the number of people in the group.
tiny.ag/w4srf1nw · submitted 1997
The world is governed more by appearance than realities, so it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as it is to know it.
tiny.ag/hjfwoanr · submitted 1997
Stupidity is also known as a medical disorder known as a rectal-cranial inversion.
tiny.ag/9zpbxeoc · submitted 1997
Some people speak from experience; others, from experience, don't speak.
tiny.ag/qgiakofl · submitted 1999 by Johan
Sharks mainly attack when your're wet.
tiny.ag/ybv1maqw · submitted 1997 by Gord Weitzel
One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
tiny.ag/yjcobkfn · submitted 1997
No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid.
tiny.ag/haxoltok · submitted 1997
Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it.
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