Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/pizd3ywt · ★★☆☆ Fair (473 ratings) · submitted 1997
I hate quotations.
tiny.ag/4agfdmeh · ★★☆☆ Fair (319 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
tiny.ag/losztnwc · ★★☆☆ Fair (499 ratings) · submitted 1997
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/kmlacltu · ★★☆☆ Fair (264 ratings) · submitted 1997
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.
tiny.ag/hnsdx84l · ★★☆☆ Fair (163 ratings) · submitted 1997
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
tiny.ag/jagw9uxy · ★★☆☆ Fair (158 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
Scott Elledge, (on his retirement from Cornell University), in Wisdom and Ignorance and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/7fjtgxm8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (140 ratings) · submitted 1997
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
tiny.ag/yoharucr · ★★☆☆ Fair (212 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
tiny.ag/qn3ryz0y · ★★☆☆ Fair (408 ratings) · submitted 1998
Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
tiny.ag/7andkqlu · ★★☆☆ Fair (229 ratings) · submitted 1997
People only see what they are prepared to see.
tiny.ag/8hodlqqe · ★★☆☆ Fair (451 ratings) · submitted 1997
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confessor of character.
tiny.ag/jcg8ibwt · ★★☆☆ Fair (280 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
tiny.ag/q7oo4vdf · ★★☆☆ Fair (71 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
tiny.ag/d3ttj2ag · ★★☆☆ Fair (374 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
tiny.ag/s6frnocs · ★★☆☆ Fair (358 ratings) · submitted 1997
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato, The Republic, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/l0ggy3oy · ★★☆☆ Fair (783 ratings) · submitted 1999
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope, (from Golden Treasury of the Familiar), in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/dzuvvei3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (302 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
tiny.ag/63vctqjk · ★★☆☆ Fair (320 ratings) · submitted 1997
Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
tiny.ag/psxefgev · ★★☆☆ Fair (45 ratings) · submitted 1997
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
tiny.ag/vp1lnrlz · ★★☆☆ Fair (161 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everything you can imagine is real.
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