Dumb Quotes - Page 32

• Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.

  George Carlin

  Running, Smart, Thinking

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• The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Voice, Tree, Earth

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.7, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Getting offended is a great way to avoid answering questions that make you sound dumb.

  Tucker Max

  Sound, Answering Questions, Way

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• Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.

  Tacitus

  Animal, Giving, Liberty

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• The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
  [Lat., Nunquam aedepol temere tinniit tintinnabulum;
  Nisi quis illud tractat aut movet, mutum est, tacet.]

  Plautus

  Moving, Bells, Rings

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• I know that we women are all justly accounted praters; they say in the present day that there never was in any age such a wonder to be found as a dumb woman.
  [Lat., Nam multum loquaces merito omnes habemus,
  Nec mutam profecto repertam ullam esse
  Hodie dicunt mulierem ullo in seculo.]

  Plautus

  Women, Age, Wonder

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• O thou, whose days are yet all spring,
  Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving;
  Experience is a dumb, dead thing;
  The victory's in believing.

  James Russell Lowell

  Spring, Believe, Past

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.98

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• God is not dumb, that he should speak no more;
  If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness
  And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.

  James Russell Lowell

  Soul, Religion, Speak

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.263, Delphi Classics

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• The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.

  Charles Lamb

  Silence, Apollo, Muse

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon TALFOURD (1849). “The Letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. By T. N. Talfourd”, p.264

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• Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Two, Forever

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2078, Delphi Classics

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• When war is raging the laws are dumb.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Law, Rage

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• This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb.
  [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam:
  Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.]

  Ovid

  Writing, Giving, Tongue

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• At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, History, Perfect

  Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• No one will grieve because your lips are dumb.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Grieving, Lips

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1908). “Poems of power”

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• It's smart to be friends with one's sex partner but dumb to have sex with one's friends.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Friends, Sex, Smart

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• If people think I'm a dumb blonde, because of the way I look, then they're dumber than they think I am. If people think I'm not very deep because of my wigs and outfits, then they're not very deep.

  Dolly Parton

  Thinking, People, Blonde

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• Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb.

  Hannah More

  Despair, Littles, Rage

  Hannah More (1853). “Tragedies, poems”, p.158

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• A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girl, Smart, Golf

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• All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

  Joseph Joubert

  People, Mind, Deaf

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.20

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• Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptable for one's private, secret thoughts - like a confidante who is deaf, dumb, and illiterate. In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. ... The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather - in many cases - offers an alternative to it.

  Susan Sontag

  Independent, Secret, Doe

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• When you get a lot of money thrown at you, you can make some dumb decisions without the right advice.

  Peyton Manning

  Decision, Advice, Thrown

  "Online Extra: Peyton Manning's IMG Dream Team". Interview with Diane Brady, www.bloomberg.com. July 12, 2004.

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• In Germany, many other countries, college tuition is free. Why isn`t free in America? Why do we have the highest rate of childhood poverty when other countries have rates much lower than we have? Why don`t we have pay equity for women workers? Why aren`t we leading the world in transforming our energy system in terms of climate change? We can do that. Are we dumb? Are we lazy? Not the case.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, College, America

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• If you stay away from parties, you're called a snob. If you go, you're an exhibitionist. If you don't talk, you're dumb. If you do talk, you're quarrelsome. Pardon me while I change my nail polish.

  Lana Turner

  Party, Hollywood, Nails

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• Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Thinking, Poetry, Important

  Natalie Goldberg (1990). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life”, Bantam

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• He that hath a blind conscience which sees nothing, a dead conscience which feels nothing, and a dumb conscience which says nothing, is in as miserable a condition as a man can be on this side of hell.

  Patrick Henry

  Men, Sides, Miserable

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