Wisdom and Ignorance

327 aphorisms · 10 comments

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tiny.ag/kgnpd9wc · ★★☆☆ Fair (384 ratings) · submitted 1998

Even thinking is participation.

Lassi Kämäri, in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/st9mqgf5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (99 ratings) · submitted 1997

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller, in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/knhyutua · ★★☆☆ Fair (298 ratings) · submitted 1997

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.

John F. Kennedy, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/jp6bkest · ★★☆☆ Fair (326 ratings) · submitted 1997

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John F. Kennedy, in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/w4crozj1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

John Maynard Keynes, in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/loqr7ybp · ★★☆☆ Fair (272 ratings) · submitted 1997

Too clever is dumb.

Ogden Nash, in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/h2rdoaxw · ★★☆☆ Fair (289 ratings) · submitted 1997

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/k0emebpg · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · 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.

Neil Postman, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Law and Politics

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