Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
61–80 (328)
tiny.ag/kov3nzmi · ★★☆☆ Fair (209 ratings) · submitted 1997
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
tiny.ag/tbra32py · ★★☆☆ Fair (306 ratings) · submitted 1997
Use soft words and hard arguments.
tiny.ag/kk23yagw · ★★☆☆ Fair (213 ratings) · submitted 1997
Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.
Unknown, (Muslim proverb), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/f4ckcyx8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (41 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you never change your mind, why have one?
tiny.ag/7fjtgxm8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (140 ratings) · submitted 1997
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
tiny.ag/jagw9uxy · ★★☆☆ Fair (158 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
Scott Elledge, (on his retirement from Cornell University), in Wisdom and Ignorance and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/hnsdx84l · ★★☆☆ Fair (163 ratings) · submitted 1997
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
tiny.ag/4agfdmeh · ★★☆☆ Fair (319 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
tiny.ag/losztnwc · ★★☆☆ Fair (499 ratings) · submitted 1997
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/kmlacltu · ★★☆☆ Fair (264 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
tiny.ag/vm35jkqm · ★★☆☆ Fair (241 ratings) · submitted 1997
Before God we are all equally wise -- and equally foolish.
tiny.ag/abelggxc · ★★☆☆ Fair (42 ratings) · submitted 1997
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
tiny.ag/htczvg3n · ★★☆☆ Fair (202 ratings) · submitted 1997
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
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/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/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/6jbweh3g · ★★☆☆ Fair (963 ratings) · submitted 1999 by John Cannizzaro
If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
tiny.ag/mwma270i · ★★☆☆ Fair (89 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you believe everything you read, you'd better not read.
Unknown, (Japanese proverb), in Wisdom and Ignorance
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