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Wisdom and Ignorance
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# · Unrated · submitted 1997
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
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Education is civil defense against media fallout.
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The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein — it rejects it.
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Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
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A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Ever notice that "what the hell" is always the right decision?
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Too clever is dumb.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
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If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are.
# · Very Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
Robert J. Oppenheimer, (on Albert Einstein), in Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Very Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
You have to be an intellectual to believe such nonsense. No ordinary man could be such a fool.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
Luciano Pavarotti, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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Everything you can imagine is real.
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Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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