Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/cgydzmit · ★★☆☆ Fair (450 ratings) · submitted 1997
To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
tiny.ag/jxzh2igc · ★★☆☆ Fair (23 ratings) · submitted 1997
Does a one-legged duck swim in a circle?
tiny.ag/4hqstejw · ★★☆☆ Fair (348 ratings) · submitted 1997
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
William Cowper, Conversation, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/yvzq4h9m · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
Learning is the evolution of the mind.
tiny.ag/n41eagpf · ★★☆☆ Fair (779 ratings) · submitted 1997
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/jpox64sd · ★★☆☆ Fair (774 ratings) · submitted 1997
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/52bhttiz · ★★☆☆ Fair (694 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/f4ckcyx8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (41 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you never change your mind, why have one?
tiny.ag/t8hgtc1d · ★★☆☆ Fair (92 ratings) · submitted 1997
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
W. Edwards Deming, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/vkcynult · ★★☆☆ Fair (303 ratings) · submitted 1997
Upon the education of the people the fate of this country depends.
tiny.ag/trlcjdxx · ★★☆☆ Fair (73 ratings) · submitted 1997
The most valuable and useful of all talents and abilities is that of never using two words or descriptions when one will do or suffice.
tiny.ag/cmrnisvx · ★★☆☆ Fair (59 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
tiny.ag/wujpidqy · ★★☆☆ Fair (399 ratings) · submitted 1999
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character. The only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.
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/gesq5cpw · ★★☆☆ Fair (357 ratings) · submitted 1997
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
tiny.ag/ultj3i4v · ★★☆☆ Fair (263 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
tiny.ag/okwhuss2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (91 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man lives by believing in something, not by debating and arguing about many things.
tiny.ag/v1hbaimf · ★★☆☆ Fair (95 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
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