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Wisdom and Ignorance
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Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
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They talk most who have the least to say.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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No one wants a good education, but everyone wants a good degree.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
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I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
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With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.
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He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
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Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
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Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
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My father must have had some elementary education, for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
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