Intellectual Laziness Quotes

• No hacer nada en absoluto es lo más difícil del mundo, lo más difícil y lo más intelectual.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Simplicity, Lazy

  Oscar Wilde (2007). "The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde", p.996, Ediciones Wordsworth

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• A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men. ... Yet these nonentities, by the intellectual laziness of men in general ... are generally obeyed as a matter of duty (and) assumed to have a kind of wisdom that is superior to ordinary wisdom.

  H. L. Mencken

  Hombres, Intelectuales, Grupos

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.69, Knopf

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• La fe me parece pereza intelectual.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Intellectual, Laziness, Strange

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.179, Penguin

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• De las pasiones nacen las opiniones; la pereza intelectual deja que éstas se endurezcan hasta convertirse en convicciones.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Intellectual, Laziness

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• La fe es pereza intelectual.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Intellectual, Laziness

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• I've never had a stupid student in my life. I never look down on my students. I never thought, "Look at these people." I might argue with them and I think that some of them might have misconceptions - that they might be infected by the intellectual laziness that is the foundation of American popular culture, and of capitalism, if you wish. But part of my job as a teacher is to work with that - against that.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Teacher, Jobs, Stupid

  "No hay vida real". Entrevista con Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. 15 de marzo de 2013.

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• La fe me parece pereza intelectual, pero no la discuto, sobre todo porque rara vez estoy en condiciones de demostrar que está equivocada. La prueba negativa suele ser imposible.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Faith, Intellectual, Negative

  "Stranger in a Strange Land " by Robert A. Heinlein, (p. 233), 1991.

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• Visa for Avalon is a testament to the power of fiction. It illuminates the truth at the heart of what is commonly called reality. This account of lives transformed and ruined by the triumph of a totalitarian rule is a timely reminder of how moral and intellectual laziness and apathy can pave the road to the reign of terror brought on by such a system.

  Azar Nafisi

  Heart, Reality, Intellectual

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