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Wisdom and Ignorance
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. [Select] Beware the man of one book. [Select] St. Thomas Aquinas {Also in: Science and Religion} The wise learn many things from their enemies. [Select] Aristophanes: The Birds, 414 B.C. [Shop] All men naturally desire knowledge. [Select] It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. [Select] It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. [Select] The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. [Select] Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. [Select] Wit is educated insolence. [Select] I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. [Select] A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. [Select] Never forget what you need to remember. [Select] A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. [Select] It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. [Select] Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. [Select] Hector Berlioz {Also in: Life and Death} If you come to a fork in the road, take it. [Select] You can observe a lot by watching. [Select] Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. [Select] Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am." [Select] Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the fool their lack of understanding. [Select] Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary [Shop]
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