Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/e7pa2qtv · ★★☆☆ Fair (554 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/dflvnw5h · ★★☆☆ Fair (438 ratings) · submitted 1997
I was asked by the customs if I had anything to declare. I said: Yes, I'd like to declare -- I'm a genius!
tiny.ag/lt8nmg5i · ★★☆☆ Fair (124 ratings) · submitted 1997
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
tiny.ag/t9jmvbpa · ★★☆☆ Fair (178 ratings) · submitted 1997
A witty saying proves nothing.
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/1bm5oz9e · ★★☆☆ Fair (461 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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/kteay1fd · ★★☆☆ Fair (112 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
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/svogwyfm · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
tiny.ag/uvmow3r4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
tiny.ag/8dhiywlp · ★★☆☆ Fair (458 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am not young enough to know everything.
tiny.ag/hxzyk2h6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (100 ratings) · submitted 1997
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
tiny.ag/icyaq4sy · ★★☆☆ Fair (116 ratings) · submitted 1997
Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.
tiny.ag/fajyrg9v · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
tiny.ag/1teeow0f · ★★☆☆ Fair (377 ratings) · submitted 1997
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/iurrlmux · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
tiny.ag/hcrgr6oa · ★★☆☆ Fair (349 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
tiny.ag/zk1y5cnl · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
tiny.ag/dkwycxon · ★★☆☆ Fair (38 ratings) · submitted 1997
Clear writers assume, with a pessimism born of experience, that whatever isn't plainly stated the reader will invariably misconstrue.
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