Dumbness Quotes

• Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.

  Will Rogers

  Honesty, Men, World

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.79, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Dumbness and silence are two different things.

  George Iles

  Two, Silence, Different

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• No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

  Theodor Adorno

  Men, Spirit, Harm

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.138, Verso

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• Happens to me all the time...People are always underestimating my dumbness.

  Janet Evanovich

  People, Underestimate, Happens

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• Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

  Plato

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

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• The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.

  Will Rogers

  Real, War, People

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.

  Malcolm X

  Book, Asking Questions, Alma Mater

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books

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• The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  America, Spirals, Lows

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.266, Pan Macmillan

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  You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Witty, Women

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• The major force in world history is sheer dumbness.

  Eric Wolf

  Military, World, Force

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• never underestimate your dumbness!!

  Jim Benton

  Underestimate, Never Underestimate

  Jim Benton (2016). “Můj milý deníčku – To mi hlava nebere!”, p.5, Fragment, Albatros Media a.s.

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• You've got to lose your passion for dumbness.

  Bob Dylan

  Passion, Interesting, Loses

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• The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn't real.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Real, School, Government

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• The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sports, Epidemics, Nba

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward S”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me, asking questions. One was, "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books.

  Alex Haley

  Book, College, Asking Questions

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• AC/DC has lived the dumbness that the Ramones have only faked all these years.

  Chuck Eddy

  Years, Ramones

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• You can see the latest dumbness as just the end of a long line of dumbnesses that have been taking place for thousands of years.

  J. B. Handelsman

  Years, Long, Lines

  "J. B. Handelsman" by Nancy Franklin, www.newyorker.com. July 2, 2007.

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• All golfers fear the one-iron. It has no angle, no loft. The one-iron is a confidence-crusher, a fear trip, an almost guarantee of shame, failure, dumbness and humiliation if you ever use it in public.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Golf, Iron, Guarantees

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• I focus on the dumbness of Hagelin... He played a hell of a game but that's all washed off from dumbness.

  John Tortorella

  Hockey, Nhl, Games

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• If Jim Mora loses his job with the Falcons, it most likely will be because of wins and losses. Problem is, when you work for such an image-conscious owner and in the most fickle of sports towns, random acts of dumbness tend to shrink a guy's margin for error.

  Jeff Schultz

  Sports, Jobs, Loss

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