Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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81–100 (328)
tiny.ag/hsbozuvd · submitted 1997
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
tiny.ag/np6qfeud · submitted 1997
Everything we really need to know we learned in kindergarten.
Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/qkrsbfxv · submitted 1997
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
tiny.ag/wuzygxbp · submitted 1999
Watch the traffic, the light will never hit you.
tiny.ag/ipa5yree · submitted 1997
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
John A. Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/airwcz94 · submitted 1997
A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
G. C. Lichtenberg, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/pgdfkoxt · submitted 1997
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
tiny.ag/hrlrndwx · submitted 1997
If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.
tiny.ag/0h8wlpui · submitted 1997
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
tiny.ag/cxkiivxs · submitted 1997
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/sefftpkt · submitted 1997
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
tiny.ag/y7qkjsrf · submitted 1997
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
tiny.ag/sutptyxa · submitted 1997
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
tiny.ag/chnlsua0 · submitted 1997
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
tiny.ag/hksesmq7 · submitted 1997
Education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
tiny.ag/x06lwkz4 · submitted 1997
Life's tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
tiny.ag/bdh0f7mw · submitted 1997
Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
tiny.ag/6b9j37a4 · submitted 1997
Wise men don't need advice; fools don't take it.
tiny.ag/6pua1ipj · submitted 1997
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
tiny.ag/0hselcjm · submitted 1997
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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