Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/6hcujeiu · ★★☆☆ Fair (320 ratings) · submitted 1997
Beware the man of one book.
St. Thomas Aquinas, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/hfx4m7bz · ★★☆☆ Fair (555 ratings) · submitted 1998 by David Shorr
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination
Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon, XCIV, in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/2ljggwxr · ★★☆☆ Fair (337 ratings) · submitted 1997
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Aristophanes, The Birds, 414 B.C., in Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/dc6pcq9o · ★★☆☆ Fair (425 ratings) · submitted 1997
All men naturally desire knowledge.
tiny.ag/6wydulw8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (348 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
tiny.ag/khtxcyl0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (389 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
tiny.ag/q2cvf8pi · ★★☆☆ Fair (391 ratings) · submitted 1997
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
tiny.ag/6lar7dwe · ★★☆☆ Fair (870 ratings) · submitted 1997
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
tiny.ag/oujwgybq · ★★☆☆ Fair (355 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wit is educated insolence.
tiny.ag/klphp6u7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
tiny.ag/otl52twf · ★★☆☆ Fair (656 ratings) · submitted 1997 by James Menzies
The masses have little time to think. And how incredible is the willingness of modern man to believe.
Benito Mussolini, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/uxa3t4kn · ★★☆☆ Fair (784 ratings) · submitted 1999
Reality is something you rise above.
tiny.ag/daezmd7g · ★★☆☆ Fair (277 ratings) · submitted 1997
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
tiny.ag/8gzg3rxx · ★★☆☆ Fair (32 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ever notice that "what the hell" is always the right decision?
tiny.ag/b1luxoq2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (297 ratings) · submitted 1997
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
tiny.ag/zwsbjgio · ★★☆☆ Fair (48 ratings) · submitted 1997
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is that little voice at the end of the day that says: "I'll try again tomorrow."
tiny.ag/d3ttj2ag · ★★☆☆ Fair (374 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
tiny.ag/pazvp4tb · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder.
Pope John Paul I, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/qe3bg8q5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (61 ratings) · submitted 1997
Experience is not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens to you.
tiny.ag/q7oo4vdf · ★★☆☆ Fair (71 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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