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Wisdom and Ignorance
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# · Unrated · submitted 1997 by Gord Weitzel (updated 1998)
Policy is a guide to the wise and a rule to the fool.
Unknown, (expression used in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police), in Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Unrated · submitted 1998 by Dave Supulski
The most undependable part on your car is the nut holding the wheel.
# · Unrated · submitted 1998 by Dave Supulski
You are only young once... but you can be immature your whole life.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1998
He who spends his time reading aphorisms of another to have one of his own, has no time or brains to have any of his own.
# · Unrated · submitted 1998
Just because you've been wiping your ass for twenty years, that doesn't mean you've been doing it right.
John Winsett, (said at a training seminar), in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Unrated · submitted 1998 by Dave Supulski
The definition of experience is knowledge acquired too late.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1998
Lately I've found that if it weren't for stereotypes, conversation would be much more difficult for the closed-minded.
# · Not So Good (9 ratings) · submitted 1998
Even thinking is participation.
# · Good (5 ratings) · submitted 1997
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
# · Not So Good (9 ratings) · submitted 1997
Beware the man of one book.
St. Thomas Aquinas, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Not So Good (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
All men naturally desire knowledge.
# · Not So Good (11 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
# · Not So Good (12 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
# · Not So Good (37 ratings) · submitted 1997
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
# · Not So Good (15 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wit is educated insolence.
# · Not So Good (37 ratings) · submitted 1997
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
# · Not So Good (7 ratings) · submitted 1997
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never forget what you need to remember.
# · Not So Good (5 ratings) · submitted 1997
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
# · Bad (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
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