Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/63vctqjk · ★★☆☆ Fair (320 ratings) · submitted 1997
Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
tiny.ag/h2rdoaxw · ★★☆☆ Fair (289 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
tiny.ag/mfx0o8sc · ★★☆☆ Fair (528 ratings) · 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/pwxgqowu · ★★☆☆ Fair (493 ratings) · submitted 1997
We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are.
tiny.ag/l2qkzwis · ★★☆☆ Fair (71 ratings) · 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/8egicznw · ★★☆☆ Fair (374 ratings) · submitted 1997
You have to be an intellectual to believe such nonsense. No ordinary man could be such a fool.
tiny.ag/pdln3czv · ★★☆☆ Fair (129 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.
Dorothy Parker, (when asked to use the word "horticulture" in a sentence), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/hutuz2wq · ★★☆☆ Fair (42 ratings) · submitted 1997
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
tiny.ag/ctg0dc6w · ★★☆☆ Fair (877 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Bill Masterson
All generalizations are false, including this one.
tiny.ag/xrmys3sk · ★★☆☆ Fair (358 ratings) · submitted 1997
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
Luciano Pavarotti, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ipsoc5wu · ★★☆☆ Fair (49 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
tiny.ag/vp1lnrlz · ★★☆☆ Fair (161 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everything you can imagine is real.
tiny.ag/s6frnocs · ★★☆☆ Fair (358 ratings) · submitted 1997
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato, The Republic, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/dzuvvei3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (302 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
tiny.ag/qy4zssfi · ★★☆☆ Fair (132 ratings) · submitted 1997
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
tiny.ag/dy2zaj4v · ★★☆☆ Fair (125 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
tiny.ag/hlnxvxip · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
tiny.ag/kjdwev6x · ★★☆☆ Fair (851 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Mark Richards
I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I alone know when that is.
tiny.ag/ijzxqrho · ★★☆☆ Fair (36 ratings) · submitted 1997
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
tiny.ag/jpv6wv9c · ★★☆☆ Fair (340 ratings) · submitted 1997
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
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