Idiot Quotes - Page 37

• I was discharged from the army for idiocy and officially certified by a special commission as an idiot. I'm an official idiot.

  Jaroslav Hašek

  Army, Special, Idiocy

  Jaroslav Hašek (1993). “The Good Soldier Švejk and His Fortunes in the World War”

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• Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Men, Gang, Chains

  "Memento Mori" by Jonathan Nolan, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• You may not agree with a woman, but to criticize her appearance — as opposed to her ideas or actions — isn't doing anyone any favors, least of all you. Insulting a woman's looks when they have nothing to do with the issue at hand implies a lack of comprehension on your part, an inability to engage in high-level thinking. You may think she's ugly, but everyone else thinks you're an idiot.

  Hillary Clinton

  Women, Thinking, Hands

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• I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Sometimes, Cannabis, Ganja

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• Damn it, there are so many idiots whose asses I have to kick! I'll have to start carrying a list just to keep track of 'em all!

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Track, Ems, Lists

  "Fullmetal Alchemist". Anime by Hiromu Arakawa, 2001 - 2010.

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• Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.

  Hakim Bey

  Watches, Repeats

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• Clip your year-end column and put it away for 10 years. See if you don’t feel like an idiot when you reread it.

  Steve Albini

  Years, Year End, Ends

  "Volume 14 (November 2003)" by Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 17, 2010.

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• I just stopped liking basketball. And then you dribbling down the court and having the owner like cuss at you and call you an idiot. I didn't even look forward to coming to the games, and if the owner [Donald Sterling] came to the game, I definitely was not gonna have a good game because it was just like, how do you play when the main heckler in the gym is the owner of the team, and he's telling you how much he hates you and calling out your name?

  Baron Davis

  Basketball, Team, Hate

  "Serby’s Sunday Q & A with… Baron Davis". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. March 4, 2012.

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• When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.

  Anthony de Mello

  Moon, Sage, Fingers

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “Taking Flight: A Book of Story Meditations”, p.66, Image

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• The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.

  Osbert Sitwell

  Artist, World, May

  Osbert Sitwell (1977). “Left Hand, Right Hand!: An Autobiography”

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• Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more happy and healthy; more than thirty per cent have been taught to conform to social and moral law, and rendered capable of order, of good feeling, and of working like the third of a man; more than forty per cent have become capable of the ordinary transactions of life under friendly control, of understanding moral and social abstractions, of working like two-thirds of a man.

  Edouard Seguin

  Men, Two, Order

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• Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.

  John Donne

  Love, Nature, Taught

  John Donne (2016). “Nativity. Poems”, p.26, Litres

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• Actually the best thing I did was to get thrown out by my wife. She's living with a fitness instructor. He drinks that yellow stuff in tins. He's an idiot.

  Steve Coogan

  Funny, Yellow, Wife

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• I'm no f****** talking to you. He's a f****** great player. Yous are f******* idiots.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Player, Talking

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• This is one of their [the Christians'] rules. Let no man that is learned, wise, or prudent come among us: but if they be unlearned, or a child, or an idiot, let him freely come. So they openly declare that none but the ignorant, and those devoid of understanding, slaves, women, and children, are fit disciples for the God they worship.

  Aulus Cornelius Celsus

  Wise, Christian, Children

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• You're an idiot. You've screwed up every play we ever ran. You're too stupid to even remember the plays. We ought to get rid of you.

  Michael Jordan

  Stupid, Play, Teammate

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• Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.

  Mark Twain

  Insanity, Crazy People, Insane

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• Setbacks, on the other hand, just make us feel weak and stupid: I should have conquered this by now. I happened on a question not long ago that oerfectly expresses this mentality: How many times must I prove myself an idiot?

  Beth Moore

  Stupid, Long Ago, Hands

  Beth Moore (2010). “So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us”, p.12, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I try to remind people, whether you have a growth manager or a value manager, you're going to go through cycles where you think you have a village idiot.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Thinking, People, Growth

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• Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match. You may live, but you're still an idiot.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Funny, Running, Ideas

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• The man who says what he thinks is finished, and the man who thinks what he says is an idiot.

  Rolf Hochhuth

  Men, Thinking, He Man

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• It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.

  Jack McDevitt

  Weapons

  Jack McDevitt (2007). “Cauldron”, p.241, Penguin

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• Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.

  Laura Anne Gilman

  Hungry

  Laura Anne Gilman (2009). “Flesh and Fire: Book One of The Vineart War”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• This is an awesome time to be a knowledge seeker, no better time, but it's also the best time in history to be a complete idiot.

  David Weinberger

  Best Times, Seekers

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• The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.

  Steven Heighton

  Sides, Willingness

  Steven Heighton (2010). “Afterlands”, p.322, Vintage Canada

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