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Wisdom and Ignorance
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# · Not So Good (14 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.
Jorge Luis Borges, "El informe de Brodie", in Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Not So Good (20 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote", in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, in Wisdom and Ignorance
Calvin and Hobbes (paperback)# · Good (one rating) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
Pooh's Little Instruction Book (hardcover)# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
People who don't think probably don't have brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake.
Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
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
The Republic (paperback)# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, in Wisdom and Ignorance
The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh (hardcover)# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
James Michener, Space, in Wisdom and Ignorance
Space (paperback)# · Not So Good (25 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Everything we really need to know we learned in kindergarten.
Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, in Wisdom and Ignorance
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (audio cassette)
# · Not So Good (23 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
The College Blue Book (data CD)# · Not So Good (37 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Not So Good (34 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Not So Good (7 ratings) · submitted 1998 (updated 1999)
"Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in Wisdom and Ignorance
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (hardcover)
# · Not So Good (42 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the fool their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Wisdom and Ignorance
The Devil's Dictionary (paperback)# · Not So Good (37 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Aristophanes, The Birds, 414 B.C., in Wisdom and Ignorance
Four Plays by Aristophanes (paperback)# · Not So Good (10 ratings) · submitted 1998 by David Shorr (updated 1999)
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination
Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon, XCIV, in Wisdom and Ignorance
The Satyricon (paperback)# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
To "be" means to be related.
Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Not So Good (9 ratings) · submitted 1999
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character. The only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1999
Watch the traffic, the light will never hit you.
# · Not So Good (9 ratings) · submitted 1999
Ignorance does not necesarilly mean one has a lack of wisdom, for a most ignorant person can be one with much wisdom. It's "live and learn" that creates wisdom.
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