Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/r2oe16bv · ★★☆☆ Fair (352 ratings) · submitted 1997
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
tiny.ag/dyhkrulm · ★★☆☆ Fair (50 ratings) · submitted 1997
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.
tiny.ag/o4053hxu · ★★☆☆ Fair (108 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/mgn8bwur · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
tiny.ag/4mch5yty · ★★☆☆ Fair (63 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
tiny.ag/9bdy4k6s · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
tiny.ag/pwfxhqlj · ★★☆☆ Fair (128 ratings) · submitted 1997
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
tiny.ag/sr7yv9lh · ★★☆☆ Fair (112 ratings) · submitted 1997
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
tiny.ag/yxk2wmee · ★★☆☆ Fair (35 ratings) · submitted 1997
No one wants a good education, but everyone wants a good degree.
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/63vctqjk · ★★☆☆ Fair (320 ratings) · submitted 1997
Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
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/vp1lnrlz · ★★☆☆ Fair (161 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everything you can imagine is real.
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/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/ctg0dc6w · ★★☆☆ Fair (877 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Bill Masterson
All generalizations are false, including this one.
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
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/h2rdoaxw · ★★☆☆ Fair (289 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
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