Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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41–60 (328)
tiny.ag/b8pl5th4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (343 ratings) · submitted 1997
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
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/hcrgr6oa · ★★☆☆ Fair (349 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
tiny.ag/t9jmvbpa · ★★☆☆ Fair (178 ratings) · submitted 1997
A witty saying proves nothing.
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/byjgwlzg · ★★☆☆ Fair (142 ratings) · submitted 1997
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
tiny.ag/r0a9zwmr · ★★☆☆ Fair (121 ratings) · submitted 1997
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
tiny.ag/bucadpxy · ★★☆☆ Fair (340 ratings) · submitted 1997
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, "I don't know."
tiny.ag/ahogqesm · ★★☆☆ Fair (350 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
tiny.ag/g8ncpo30 · ★★☆☆ Fair (517 ratings) · submitted 1997
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read.
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/8dhiywlp · ★★☆☆ Fair (458 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am not young enough to know everything.
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/lt8nmg5i · ★★☆☆ Fair (124 ratings) · submitted 1997
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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/1bm5oz9e · ★★☆☆ Fair (461 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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/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/zsy8hdo3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (236 ratings) · submitted 1997
My father must have had some elementary education, for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.
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