Wisdom and Ignorance

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Wayne Birmingham, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Knowledge and belief are two separate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.

Godfried Bomans, Buitelingen II, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

To use a method is to compare the realm of mind to a stool. The true thinker walks freely.

Godfried Bomans, De avonturen van Bill Clifford, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities that I have visited, all my ancestors... Perhaps I would have liked to be my father, who wrote but has the decency of not publishing.

Jorge Luis Borges, in Wisdom and Ignorance

My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.

Jorge Luis Borges, "El informe de Brodie", in Wisdom and Ignorance

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote", in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance

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.

Dr. Squid, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.

Will Durant, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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.

Will Durant, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

The Earl of Chesterfield, in Wisdom and Ignorance

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Bob Edwards, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Before God we are all equally wise -- and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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.

Albert Einstein, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Unknown, (Chinese proverb), in Wisdom and Ignorance

However hot the water is, the fire still goes out.

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance

If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance

If you believe everything you read, you'd better not read.

Unknown, (Japanese proverb), in Wisdom and Ignorance