Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/wgyfgj8m · submitted 1997
Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Heschel, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/gbo6vshj · submitted 1997
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
tiny.ag/ccrfqs3v · submitted 1997
I'm more like I am now than I ever was before.
tiny.ag/1bbjwdu7 · submitted 1997
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
Ellen Glasgow, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/z0pv1omm · submitted 1997
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
tiny.ag/ufko7fwv · submitted 1997
I do not know myself and God forbid that I should.
tiny.ag/juocdkwi · submitted 1997
Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it, and have not reached my goal.
tiny.ag/5jqhurzz · submitted 1997
Look to the past for guidance into the future.
tiny.ag/wh6qtopk · submitted 1997
I improve on misquotation.
tiny.ag/6qzazlkw · submitted 1997
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
tiny.ag/ldizacqu · submitted 1997
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Salvor Hardin), in War and Peace and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/90upthng · submitted 1999
If you're here, you're alive.
tiny.ag/s0wemj5y · submitted 1997
A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.
tiny.ag/nolhz29r · submitted 1998
Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
tiny.ag/jcg8ibwt · submitted 1997
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
tiny.ag/7andkqlu · submitted 1997
People only see what they are prepared to see.
tiny.ag/8hodlqqe · submitted 1997
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confessor of character.
tiny.ag/5l9lxr7a · submitted 1997
If, while you are in school, there is a shortage of qualified personnel in a particular field, then by the time you graduate with the necessary qualifications, that field's employment is glutted.
tiny.ag/fbo95pnn · submitted 1997
In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
tiny.ag/slywabar · submitted 1997
Only the educated are free.
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