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Wisdom and Ignorance
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# · Not So Good (162 ratings) · submitted 1997
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
# · Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
# · Not So Good (9 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can observe a lot by watching.
# · Not So Good (28 ratings) · submitted 1997
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
# · Not So Good (9 ratings) · submitted 1997
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum — "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am."
# · Not So Good (8 ratings) · submitted 1997
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
# · Not So Good (7 ratings) · submitted 1997
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Sam Brown, (Washington Post, 1977), in Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Not So Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject... The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Robert Burton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
# · Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
# · Not So Good (4 ratings) · submitted 1997
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
A man lives by believing in something, not by debating and arguing about many things.
# · Very Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain — and most fools do.
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