Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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61–80 (328)
tiny.ag/wh6qtopk · ★★☆☆ Fair (146 ratings) · submitted 1997
I improve on misquotation.
tiny.ag/5jqhurzz · ★★☆☆ Fair (25 ratings) · submitted 1997
Look to the past for guidance into the future.
tiny.ag/juocdkwi · ★★☆☆ Fair (869 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it, and have not reached my goal.
tiny.ag/ufko7fwv · ★★☆☆ Fair (3086 ratings) · submitted 1997
I do not know myself and God forbid that I should.
tiny.ag/z0pv1omm · ★★☆☆ Fair (46 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
tiny.ag/1bbjwdu7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (71 ratings) · submitted 1997
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
Ellen Glasgow, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/uejht2oo · ★★☆☆ Fair (234 ratings) · submitted 1997
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
tiny.ag/hczjqg3z · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
tiny.ag/ajjiywbg · ★★☆☆ Fair (230 ratings) · submitted 1997
It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.
tiny.ag/soebrnq6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (286 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (865 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement.
tiny.ag/rci53dro · ★★☆☆ Fair (39 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
tiny.ag/kl2zmoog · ★★☆☆ Fair (1000 ratings) · 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/wagakfth · ★★☆☆ Fair (945 ratings) · submitted 1999
Learning to shrug is the beginning of wisdom.
Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/mmclufba · ★★☆☆ Fair (310 ratings) · 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/ieyckbys · ★★☆☆ Fair (563 ratings) · submitted 1997
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
tiny.ag/fj2gtz79 · ★★☆☆ Fair (223 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Robert Burton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/satkf7ke · ★★☆☆ Fair (107 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
tiny.ag/inomue9p · ★★☆☆ Fair (1073 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote", in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/6kh8ljvj · ★★☆☆ Fair (163 ratings) · submitted 1997
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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