Idiocy Quotes - Page 2

• The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence arises out of no-mind, idiocy out of the mind. Mind is idiotic, no-mind is wise. No-mind is wisdom, intelligence. Mind depends on knowledge, on methods, on money, on experience, on this and that. Mind always needs props, it needs supports, it cannot exist on its own. On its own, it flops.

  Rajneesh

  Wise, Intelligent, Support

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• I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.

  Veronica Roth

  People, Noses, Bleeding

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• INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Iron, Water, Intellectual

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.130, University of Georgia Press

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• La mariposa, una col blanca, (Su honesta idiotez de vuelo) Nunca ahora, es demasiado tarde, Dominará el arte de volar recto.

  Robert Graves

  Arte, Mariposa, Blanco

  Robert Graves, Frank L. Kersnowski (1989). "Conversaciones con Robert Graves", p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi.

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• Your trusting idiocy knows no bounds

  Cassandra Clare

  Knows, Bounds

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• Now that I think about it, it seems to me that’s what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you like, so that a drawing on the wall does not have to be diminished by the memory of the frescoes of Giotto in Padua.

  Julio Cortázar

  Wall, Memories, Thinking

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• Los lenguajes que intentan impedir la idiotez se convierten ellos mismos en idiotas.

  Rob Pike

  Trying, Language, Programming

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• There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.

  Maya Angelou

  Sacrifice, Long, Racism

  Fuente: teentalkingcircles.org

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• An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Mind, Foundation

  C. S. LEWIS (1947). "LA ABOLICIÓN DEL HOMBRE"

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• Arte y entretenimiento son la misma cosa, en el sentido de que cuanto más profunda y genuinamente entretenida es una obra, mejor arte es. Insinuar que el arte es algo pesado, solemne y aburrido, y que el entretenimiento es modesto, pero alegre y popular, es la peor idiotez neovictoriana.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Dull, Entertainment

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.232, Ultramarine Publishing

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• They're us!They've repopulated the world, and now they've achieved the same state of idiocy they were in before, ready to blow themselves up all over again. Great, isn't it? That's the human race!

  René Barjavel

  Blow, Race, World

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• The longer I live, the more I am certified that men, in all that relates to their own health, have not common sense! whether it be their pride, or their impatience, or their obstinancy, or their ingrained spirit of contradiction, that stupefies and misleads them, the result is always a certain amount of idiocy, or distraction in their dealings with their own bodies! ... either by their wild impatience of bodily suffering, and the exaggerated moan they make over it, or else by their reckless defiance of it, and neglect of every dictate of prudence!

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Pride, Men, Common Sense

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• Los expertos en tiro con arco sólo tensan su arco cuando se disponen a utilizarlo; cuando no lo necesitan, lo dejan sin tensar, pues de lo contrario quedaría inservible cuando llegara el momento de utilizarlo. Lo mismo ocurre con el hombre. Si se dedicara incesantemente a una aburrida ronda de negocios, sin romper la monotonía con alegres diversiones, caería imperceptiblemente en la idiotez, o sería golpeado por la parálisis...

  Heródoto

  Business, Fall, Men

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• In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false ideas, some of the most absurd ideas a brain can hold. ... but all this give no uneasiness to the average brain. That long-suffering organ has been trained for more thousands of years than history can uncover to hold in unquestioning patience great blocks of irrelevant idiocy and large active lies.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Block, Lying, Average

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• When a new post-war generation has grown to puberty and to youth and to manhood and womanhood, it should read, and it should be realistically told, of the futility, the idiocy, the utter depravity of war. For that matter, this instruction could begin at the age of six with the taking of those toy guns out of those toy holsters and throwing them in the ash-cans where they belong.

  Edna Ferber

  War, Gun, Age

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• La idiotez es el defecto femenino... No es peor que el defecto masculino, que es la locura.

  Rebecca West

  Males, Female, Defects

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Depression, Tragedy, Panic

  JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH (1962). “THE GREAT CRASH 1929”

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• The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror... Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

  Cory Doctorow

  Real, Damage Is Done, Giving

  "BBC Photographer Prevented From Shooting St Paul's Because He Might Be 'Al Qaeda Operative'". boingboing.net. November 30, 2009.

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• For the lost are lost by nature, all your ideas of moral regeneration will make no difference, there is AN INNATE DETERMINISM, there is an undeniable incurability in suicide, crime, idiocy, madness, there is an invincible cuckoldry in man, there is a congenital weakness of the character, a castration of the mind.

  Antonin Artaud

  Suicide, Character, Men

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• Let the rabbit of free enterprise out of its velveteen bag and too many people would have to be fired, too much idiocy exposed to the light of judgment or ridicule, too much vanity sacrificed to the fires of efficiency. Such a catastrophe obviously would threaten the American way of life, to say nothing of the belief in free markets.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Light, Fire, Vanity

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). "Dinero y clase en América: Notas y Observaciones sobre la Religión Civil"

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• We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquefy our brains. Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

  Bill Watterson

  Motivación, Correr, Ideas

  "Algunas reflexiones sobre el mundo real por alguien que lo vislumbró y huyó". Discurso de graduación de Bill Watterson en el Kenyon College de Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. 20 de mayo de 1990.

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• Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.

  Sam Shepard

  Teenage, Hollywood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People who truly have control over time always have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. A sense of priorities drives their use of time and it can shift away from the ordinary work that’s easy to justify, in favor of the more ethereal, deeper things that are harder to justify. They protect their time from trivia and idiocy; these people are time rich. They provide themselves with a surplus of time. They might seem to idle, or relax more often than the rest, but that just might be a sign of their mastery, not their incompetence.

  Scott Berkun

  People, Giving, Priorities

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• A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.

  Steven Brust

  Clever, Mistake, Smart

  Steven Brust (2010). “Iorich”, p.172, Macmillan

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• The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

  Milan Kundera

  Music, Guitar, Eternal

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