Idiocy Quotes - Page 3

• To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.

  Dan Simmons

  Sex, Pain, Mistake

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Rise of Endymion”, p.403, Spectra

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• Good energy was never meant to be waisted on idiocy.

  Silver RavenWolf

  Energy, Paganism, Meant To Be

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• Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?

  Myrtle Reed

  Letters, Love Letter, Evidence

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• California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.

  Gertrude Atherton

  California, Vices, Youth

  Gertrude Atherton (2014). “The Avalanche”, p.101, The Floating Press

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• The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the brain. It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy: men are so obsessed by public affairs that they see the world as by moonlight, which shows the outlines of every object but not the details indicative of their nature.

  Rebecca West

  Fate, Men, Cells

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

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• The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe -- because no one else could be such a fool.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Ideas, Intellectual

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• Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down,does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Kindness, Animal, Top Down

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.158, Transaction Publishers

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• To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures is. However, at this particular moment I cannot find so much to laugh at as I would like.

  Noel Coward

  Philosophy, Writing, Views

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• O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely-"il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien"-I wager he finds nothing!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Humanity, Ticklish

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.28, e-artnow

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• In every big city there is always one surefire laugh, and that lies in hanging some piece of idiocy upon the people of a nearby city or town.

  W. C. Fields

  Lying, Cities, People

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• In the United States alone, we spend seven times as much on war as on education. There's something wrong there. On this Memorial Day, we should certainly honor those who have died at war, but we should dedicate this day, not so much to their memory, but to the search for a way to end the idiocy of the wars that killed them.

  Andy Rooney

  Memorial Day, Memories, War

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• It is such an abundance of idiocy that you lose courage. That you lose hope. I don't want to lose hope. I get through every day. I'm pretty good. I work. I sleep. I sing. I walk.

  Maurice Sendak

  Sleep, Want, Abundance

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

  Cory Doctorow

  Violence, Terrorism, Hundred

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

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• Eso sí, el Monte Rushmore tampoco es exactamente el Partenón o la Capilla Sixtina. Después de la ingenuidad del monumento al Caballo Loco, la pomposa idiotez de esos cuatro presidentes me parece aún más ridícula. Deseando mostrar respeto o sentir una emoción indirecta de admiración y orgullo, sólo puedo reírme. Lo siento mucho. Cualquier estadounidense leal que lea esto y se sienta indignado e insultado es libre de estallar en burlones bufidos de risa ante cualquier equivalente británico.

  Stephen Fry

  Caballo, Perdón, Risa

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• I think the reason why we got into such idiocy in investment management is best illustrated by a story that I tell about the guy who sold fishing tackle. I asked him, "My God, they're purple and green. Do fish really take these lures?" And he said, "Mister, I don't sell to fish." Investment managers are in the position of that fishing tackle salesman.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Fishing, Purple

  "A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom as it Relates to Investment Management and Business". Charlie Munger's lecture to the students at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, 1994.

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• Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eigh­teenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Lying, Men, Thinking

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1036, Dell

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• To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

  Winston Churchill

  Heartless, Conservative

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• Barack ObamaLa administración de Obama respondió a la crisis haitiana en 24 horas. Aquí vienen los soldados, aquí viene la comida, vamos, vamos, vamos... Rush Limbaugh dijo a sus multimillonarios oyentes que Obama sólo lo hizo para ganarse el favor de los negros en Estados Unidos. Este es el tipo de idiotez con la que tengo que lidiar en mi país.

  Henry Rollins

  País, América, Gente

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• Cuando se celebraron las Bodas de Plata, yo era un gruñón antimonárquico. No lo celebré y me horrorizaron las celebraciones. En mi idiotez, ¡me lo perdí! Ahora me siento completamente diferente a entonces.

  Helen Mirren

  Jubileo, Celebración, Plata

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• Todo lo que el mundo más necesita hoy, se combina de la manera más seductora en su arte, - los tres grandes estimulantes de la gente agotada: la brutalidad, la artificialidad y la inocencia (idiotez).

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, People, Brutality

  "Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche".

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• The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, America, Poetry

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.149, Penguin

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• I think the defect actually lies with male artists. Male artists often border on idiocy, while it's important for a woman not to be that way, if possible. Women are outstanding in science, just as good as men.

  Georg Baselitz

  Lying, Artist, Men

  "Georg Baselitz Is a Sexist Grump". SPIEGEL Interview, hyperallergic.com. January 30, 2013.

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• I'm still wondering about the Phantom in the chair, you know at the end of Phantom [of the Opera], so I guess that's my sort of idiocy. I still haven't figured out how they do that.

  Katherine Shindle

  Opera, Phantoms, Wonder

  Fuente: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I'm not very enthusiastic about smaller nations forming their own states, particularly those in the West, where they would, after gaining 'independence', remain in the alliances that are oppressing and plundering the entire world: like NATO or the European Union. The breaking of the great country of Yugoslavia into small pieces was a hostile, evil design by the West. The dissolution of Czechoslovakia after the so-called "Velvet Revolution" was a total idiocy. But Catalonia, if it became independent, would become one of the richest parts of Europe.

  Andre Vltchek

  Country, Independent, Evil

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• La industria informática es la única que está más de moda que la moda femenina. A lo mejor soy idiota, pero no tengo ni idea de lo que están hablando. ¿Qué es? Es un completo galimatías. Es una locura. ¿Cuándo va a parar esta idiotez?

  Larry Ellison

  Moda, Hablar, Ideas

  "La computación en nube es una trampa, advierte el fundador de GNU Richard Stallman" por Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. 29 de septiembre de 2008.

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