Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
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tiny.ag/qhswaupg · ★★☆☆ Fair (1040 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
tiny.ag/hevntg1m · ★★☆☆ Fair (160 ratings) · submitted 1997
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. Williams, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/iurrlmux · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
tiny.ag/lveycuka · ★★☆☆ Fair (129 ratings) · submitted 1998
Just because you've been wiping your ass for twenty years, that doesn't mean you've been doing it right.
John Winsett, (said at a training seminar), in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/hxzyk2h6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (100 ratings) · submitted 1997
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
tiny.ag/fyc0iesz · ★★☆☆ Fair (73 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of Truth.
tiny.ag/zk1y5cnl · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
tiny.ag/fajyrg9v · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
tiny.ag/e8syltpb · ★★☆☆ Fair (147 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
tiny.ag/z1auvpyn · ★★☆☆ Fair (82 ratings) · submitted 1997
A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men.
tiny.ag/izsokq3v · ★★☆☆ Fair (96 ratings) · submitted 1997
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.
tiny.ag/2o4terst · ★★☆☆ Fair (877 ratings) · submitted 1999 by LEStephey
A small journey begins with one step and ends with another.
tiny.ag/llsj2qct · ★★☆☆ Fair (843 ratings) · submitted 1997
A pseudo-intellectual is a person who knows what "pseudo" means.
tiny.ag/lkf1oudx · ★★☆☆ Fair (79 ratings) · submitted 1997
A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.
tiny.ag/4rgim10d · ★★☆☆ Fair (154 ratings) · submitted 1997
A single fact can spoil a good argument.
tiny.ag/xozwtgoz · ★★☆☆ Fair (866 ratings) · submitted 1997
Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/8nji6wzs · ★★☆☆ Fair (273 ratings) · submitted 1997
'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
tiny.ag/pazvp4tb · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder.
Pope John Paul I, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/06lybgnu · ★★☆☆ Fair (313 ratings) · submitted 1998
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is its own troubles.
Jesus Christ, (Matthew 6:34), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/qiy9xdhn · ★★☆☆ Fair (1031 ratings) · submitted 1997
To "be" means to be related.
Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
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