Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/e9njxakr · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
Kelvin Throop, III, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/e2icakpf · ★★☆☆ Fair (49 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
tiny.ag/rupnqvyt · ★★☆☆ Fair (177 ratings) · submitted 1997
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henrik Tikkanen, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/jttv8uoi · ★★☆☆ Fair (22 ratings) · submitted 1997
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
tiny.ag/if4vw3y9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (147 ratings) · submitted 1997
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/dkwycxon · ★★☆☆ Fair (38 ratings) · submitted 1997
Clear writers assume, with a pessimism born of experience, that whatever isn't plainly stated the reader will invariably misconstrue.
tiny.ag/3laiwzst · ★★☆☆ Fair (88 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
tiny.ag/g8ncpo30 · ★★☆☆ Fair (517 ratings) · submitted 1997
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read.
tiny.ag/ahogqesm · ★★☆☆ Fair (350 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
tiny.ag/bucadpxy · ★★☆☆ Fair (340 ratings) · submitted 1997
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, "I don't know."
tiny.ag/r0a9zwmr · ★★☆☆ Fair (121 ratings) · submitted 1997
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
tiny.ag/byjgwlzg · ★★☆☆ Fair (142 ratings) · submitted 1997
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
tiny.ag/uvmow3r4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
tiny.ag/svogwyfm · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
tiny.ag/t9jmvbpa · ★★☆☆ Fair (178 ratings) · submitted 1997
A witty saying proves nothing.
tiny.ag/hcrgr6oa · ★★☆☆ Fair (349 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
tiny.ag/dy2zaj4v · ★★☆☆ Fair (125 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
tiny.ag/0rczsoyu · ★★☆☆ Fair (22 ratings) · submitted 1997
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
tiny.ag/tf9fn0vv · ★★☆☆ Fair (73 ratings) · submitted 1997
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
tiny.ag/inmjkhxu · ★★☆☆ Fair (24 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you hear a wise sentence or an apt phrase, commit it to your memory.
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