Wisdom and Ignorance
327 aphorisms · 10 comments
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tiny.ag/gokrtfpu · ★★☆☆ Fair (563 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.
tiny.ag/htpbx3e8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (172 ratings) · submitted 1997
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
tiny.ag/nolhz29r · ★★☆☆ Fair (126 ratings) · submitted 1998
Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
tiny.ag/hrlrndwx · ★★☆☆ Fair (216 ratings) · submitted 1997
If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.
tiny.ag/pgdfkoxt · ★★☆☆ Fair (72 ratings) · submitted 1997
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
tiny.ag/airwcz94 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1078 ratings) · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/0h8wlpui · ★★☆☆ Fair (43 ratings) · submitted 1997
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
tiny.ag/ipa5yree · ★★☆☆ Fair (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
John A. Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), in Wisdom and Ignorance
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