Stupidity Quotes - Page 27

• Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Inspirational, Crazy

  Walt Whitman (1953). “The best of Whitman”

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• Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is in ourselves, all the cowardice, weakness, laziness, dishonesty, compromise, and stupidity. We throw a cordon of love around the chosen one and decide that everything within it will somehow be free of our faults. We locate inside another a perfection that eludes us within ourselves, and through our union with the beloved hope to maintain (against the evidence of all self-knowledge) a precarious faith in our species.

  Alain de Botton

  Falling In Love, Elude Us, Self

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.14, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Hey, does my stupidity give you the right to bruise a tender heart?" "Yeah, yeah. I'm bruising a heart made of Play-Doh.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Heart, Play, Giving

  Elizabeth Chandler (2010). “Don't Tell”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.

  Hermann Hesse

  People, Demand, Term

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know that the earth is not flat but my feet are. I know that space is curved but my brain has been condoned by habit to grow in a straight line. What I call light is my own blend of darkness. What I call a view is my hand-painted trompe-l'oeil. I run after knowledge like a ferret down a ferret hole. My limitations, I call the boundaries of what can be known. I interpret the world by confusing other people's psychology with my own.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Running, Light, Views

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• Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.

  Jim Butcher

  Laughter, Laughing, Comedian

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• I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I the stupidity of living in the moment, and spend every dull, amazing second with me.

  Heidi Julavits

  Live In The Moment, Dull, Cherish

  Heidi Julavits (2004). “The Effect of Living Backwards”, p.261, Penguin

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• ...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

  Marcel Proust

  Noses, Organs

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.269, Wordsworth Editions

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• Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot.

  Iain Banks

  Thinking, Idiot, Halfway

  "Consider Phlebas" by Iain Banks, Orbit Books paperback edition, (p. 27), 1987.

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• We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

  George Eliot

  Self, World, Moral

  George Eliot (2007). “Middlemarch”, p.216, Collector's Library

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• I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot touch the body of Life. Life is marvellous. I want to be deeply rooted in it - to live - to expand - to breathe in it - to rejoice - to share it. To give and to be asked for Love.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Giving, Body, Want

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (1984). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1919-1920”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside of them, which matched the feelings in the girls, that they were all ascending, moving into a future that could only improve them, and I wondered what it was like - the miracle, the stupidity of feeling that.

  Peter Cameron

  Girl, Moving, Boys

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.89, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and realize that, if we were not, we would be God. The art of gentleness toward ourselves leads to being gentle with others -- and is a natural prerequisite for our presence to God in prayer.

  Brennan Manning

  Art, Prayer, Broken

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.26, NavPress

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• There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Quality, Looks

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.77, Macmillan

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• I wronged him, Katra. Greatly. I had the entire world in my hand at one time and I didn’t know it. I let stupidity blind me and I lost him because of that. (Artemis) Then tell him you’re sorry. (Kat) As your father would say, there are some things ‘sorry’ can’t repair. Some pains run too deep to ever be healed by something as simple as words, no matter how much you mean them. (Artemis)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Sorry, Pain

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• She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Nice, Men, Smell

  Flannery O'Connor (2016). “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, p.120, Faber & Faber

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• She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.

  Alex Shakar

  Deep Thought, Empty, Restaurants

  Alex Shakar (2011). “Luminarium”, p.165, Soho Press

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• A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Tyrants, Firsts, Servant

  Gilles Deleuze, Paul Patton (2004). “Difference and Repetition”, p.151, A&C Black

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• The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.

  Christopher Hitchens

  War, Cancer, Battle

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.26, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.

  Michael Lewis

  Ignorance, People, Ignorant

  Michael Lewis (2007). “The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game”, p.175, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Most of our suffering comes from sin and stupidity; it is, nevertheless, very real, and growth can occur with real repentance. But the highest source of suffering appears to be reserved for the innocent who undergo divine tutorial training.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Real, Growth, Training

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• The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects - his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Success, Cheating, Freedom

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• But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?

  Orson Scott Card

  War, Winning, Underestimate

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.117, Macmillan

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• You'd have thought we planned it," says Peeta, giving me just the hint of a smile. "Didn't you?" asks Portia. Her fingers press her eyelids closed as if she's warding off a very bright light. "No," I say looking at Peeta with a new sense of apreciation. "Neither of us even knew what we were going to do before we went in." "And Haymitch?" says Peeta. "We decided we don't want any other allies in the arena." "Good. Then I won't be responsible for you killing off any of my friends with your stupidity," he says.

  Suzanne Collins

  Light, Giving, Allies

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• I'm allergic to stupidity.

  Chris Colfer

  Stupid People, Allergic

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