Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/bague6sg · submitted 1997
A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.
tiny.ag/egvuw4ni · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
tiny.ag/qe3bg8q5 · submitted 1997
Experience is not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens to you.
tiny.ag/oayda2mh · submitted 1997
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
tiny.ag/q7oo4vdf · submitted 1997
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
tiny.ag/d3ttj2ag · submitted 1997
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
tiny.ag/mrm8ujlt · submitted 1998 by Marc Spierings
Knowledge and belief are two separate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.
Godfried Bomans, Buitelingen II, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/kiytmq1q · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities that I have visited, all my ancestors... Perhaps I would have liked to be my father, who wrote but has the decency of not publishing.
tiny.ag/oy08nxhf · submitted 1998 by Marc Spierings
To use a method is to compare the realm of mind to a stool. The true thinker walks freely.
Godfried Bomans, De avonturen van Bill Clifford, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/lnv4og3o · submitted 1998
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
tiny.ag/y5vxd29g · submitted 1997
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
tiny.ag/6kh8ljvj · submitted 1997
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
tiny.ag/lbtrv5my · submitted 1997
I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.
tiny.ag/hvtkmq8l · submitted 1997
Strong words are required for weak principles.
Doug Horton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
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/yfqykgpj · submitted 1997
Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the fool their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Wisdom and Ignorance
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/9exonkwl · submitted 1997
Growing old is not growing up.
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