Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/sefftpkt · submitted 1997
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
tiny.ag/y0inete4 · submitted 1997
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
tiny.ag/cxkiivxs · submitted 1997
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/y7qkjsrf · submitted 1997
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
tiny.ag/sutptyxa · submitted 1997
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
tiny.ag/chnlsua0 · submitted 1997
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
tiny.ag/as0knvco · submitted 1997
Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference.
tiny.ag/slupay0r · submitted 1997
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
tiny.ag/7fjtgxm8 · submitted 1997
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
tiny.ag/jagw9uxy · 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/yoharucr · submitted 1997
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
tiny.ag/pizd3ywt · submitted 1997
I hate quotations.
tiny.ag/qn3ryz0y · submitted 1998
Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
tiny.ag/njl5gsre · submitted 1997
Live to learn... forget... and learn again.
tiny.ag/pxfadpln · submitted 1997
Never give advice -- a wise man won't need it, a fool won't heed it.
tiny.ag/2j17qytc · submitted 1999
One thing is one thing. Another thing is another thing.
tiny.ag/ybv1maqw · submitted 1997 by Gord Weitzel
One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
tiny.ag/yjcobkfn · submitted 1997
No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid.
tiny.ag/haxoltok · submitted 1997
Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it.
tiny.ag/hnsdx84l · submitted 1997
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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