Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
261–280 (328)
tiny.ag/qwlnrjbr · ★★☆☆ Fair (35 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.
tiny.ag/uejht2oo · ★★☆☆ Fair (234 ratings) · submitted 1997
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
tiny.ag/1bbjwdu7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (71 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (46 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
tiny.ag/ufko7fwv · ★★☆☆ Fair (3086 ratings) · submitted 1997
I do not know myself and God forbid that I should.
tiny.ag/juocdkwi · ★★☆☆ Fair (869 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (25 ratings) · submitted 1997
Look to the past for guidance into the future.
tiny.ag/wh6qtopk · ★★☆☆ Fair (146 ratings) · submitted 1997
I improve on misquotation.
tiny.ag/ccrfqs3v · ★★☆☆ Fair (93 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'm more like I am now than I ever was before.
tiny.ag/6qzazlkw · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
tiny.ag/ldizacqu · ★★☆☆ Fair (337 ratings) · 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/s0wemj5y · ★★☆☆ Fair (25 ratings) · submitted 1997
A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.
tiny.ag/gbo6vshj · ★★☆☆ Fair (55 ratings) · 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/6rk1jdhd · ★★☆☆ Fair (106 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
tiny.ag/tzkxgb3b · ★★☆☆ Fair (93 ratings) · submitted 1997
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
tiny.ag/b5zelloy · ★★☆☆ Fair (531 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
tiny.ag/sefftpkt · ★★☆☆ Fair (150 ratings) · submitted 1997
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
tiny.ag/y0inete4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (185 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
tiny.ag/cxkiivxs · ★★☆☆ Fair (399 ratings) · submitted 1997
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/y7qkjsrf · ★★☆☆ Fair (255 ratings) · submitted 1997
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
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