Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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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/6kh8ljvj · submitted 1997
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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/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/qol2sxws · submitted 1997
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein -- it rejects it.
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/hurfcg6j · submitted 1997
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
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/kqr3auag · submitted 1997
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
tiny.ag/dwmxy2kw · submitted 1997
Education is civil defense against media fallout.
tiny.ag/pwxgqowu · submitted 1997
We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are.
tiny.ag/qkrsbfxv · submitted 1997
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
tiny.ag/3zbbml0p · submitted 1997
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
tiny.ag/o1adwrjp · submitted 1997
Never forget what you need to remember.
tiny.ag/n5jvquk2 · submitted 1998
Those who can do, those who can't teach, and those who can't teach teach education.
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/h2rdoaxw · submitted 1997
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
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