Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/li6watos · submitted 1997
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/ejvaborl · submitted 1997
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
tiny.ag/hmqvyuqz · submitted 1997
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
tiny.ag/1b7ttrhh · submitted 1997
We find comfort among those who agree with us; growth among those who don't.
tiny.ag/hvtkmq8l · submitted 1997
Strong words are required for weak principles.
Doug Horton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/d3ttj2ag · submitted 1997
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
tiny.ag/q7oo4vdf · submitted 1997
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
tiny.ag/oayda2mh · submitted 1997
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
tiny.ag/zwsbjgio · submitted 1997
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is that little voice at the end of the day that says: "I'll try again tomorrow."
tiny.ag/qe3bg8q5 · submitted 1997
Experience is not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens to you.
tiny.ag/egvuw4ni · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
tiny.ag/bague6sg · submitted 1997
A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.
tiny.ag/jdfanm7k · submitted 1998
Lately I've found that if it weren't for stereotypes, conversation would be much more difficult for the closed-minded.
tiny.ag/23goyhuk · submitted 1997
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
tiny.ag/1jtdasvn · submitted 1997
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
tiny.ag/asaliq9g · submitted 1997
I live for books.
Thomas Jefferson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/hyedkhd2 · submitted 1997
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
tiny.ag/ls2p5dcg · submitted 1997
Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
tiny.ag/9exonkwl · submitted 1997
Growing old is not growing up.
tiny.ag/k0emebpg · submitted 2011 by peter
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.
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