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Wisdom and Ignorance
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# · Unrated · submitted 1999 by S. Gilmary Beagle
The dead and the stupid never change their opinions.
# · Not So Good (62 ratings) · submitted 1998
An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
# · Not So Good (7 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it, and have not reached my goal.
# · Good (12 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Not So Good (one rating) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
G. C. Lichtenberg, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Not So Good (7 ratings) · submitted 1998
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it's been though a blender first.
Les Barker, An Infinite Number of Occasional Tables, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Not So Good (7 ratings) · submitted 1998
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
# · Not So Good (28 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Marc Spierings
Knowledge and belief are two separate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.
Godfried Bomans, Buitelingen II, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Not So Good (30 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Marc Spierings
To use a method is to compare the realm of mind to a stool. The true thinker walks freely.
Godfried Bomans, De avonturen van Bill Clifford, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Good (one rating) · submitted 1998
Those who can do, those who can't teach, and those who can't teach teach education.
# · Not So Good (4 ratings) · submitted 1998
Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
# · Very Good (one rating) · submitted 1998
Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1998
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is its own troubles.
Jesus Christ, (Matthew 6:34), in Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
# · Not So Good (10 ratings) · submitted 1997 by David Epstein (updated 1998)
Do two wrongs make a right? Yes. The right to be wrong.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 by James Menzies (updated 1998)
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
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.
Dorothy Parker, (when asked to use the word "horticulture" in a sentence), in Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 by Mark Dawson (updated 1998)
However hot the water is, the fire still goes out.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 by Gord Weitzel (updated 1998)
One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
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