Quotes About Imbecility

O completo imbecil, entretanto, alcança êxito, algumas vezes, porquanto, não tendo consciência da sua imbecilidade, jamais hesita em afirmar com autenticidade. Ora, a afirmação enérgica e repetida, possui prestígio. O mais vulgar dos "camelos", quando energicamente afirma a superioridade de um produto, exerce prestígio na multidão que o circunda.

Why anyone should do so, knowing full well the dangers, was beyond the soldiers' comprehension, but they had learned from past experience never to underestimate the imbecility of certain individuals on occasions like these.

I have discovered that of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls' boarding-school is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Yet I think no one who lived in the Third Reich could have failed to be impressed by Nietzsche's influence on it. His books might be full, as Santayana said, of "genial imbecility" and "boyish blasphemies." Yet Nazi scribblers never tired of extolling him.

Mystery Epidemic of Imbecility.

No difference between reality and the superstitious faith in reality. Preserving the real and preserving phenomena are leitmotivs of contemporary imbecility. Appearances, for their part, are always preserved.

Ce qui me dégoûte dans la guerre, c'est son imbécillité. J'aime la vie. Je n'aime même que la vie. C'est beaucoup, mais je comprends qu'on la sacrifie à une cause juste et belle.

an animal, at the end of a few months, is what it will be all its life; and its species, at the end of a thousand years, is what it was in the first of those thousand years. Why is man alone subject to becoming an imbecile?

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

La camera si riempì ora di azioni decise e precise, le quali però, essendo nate dalla noia, dall'oziosità, dal capriccio, celavano in sé una certa dose di imbecillità.

We know now that most birth deformities result from the consanguinity of the parents." "From the what?" asked Desdemona. "From families intermarrying." Desdemona went white. "Causes all kinds of problems. Imbecility. Hemophilia. Look at the Romanovs. Look at any royal family. Mutants, all of them.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

if there weren't war, lunacy, perversity, sickness, imbecility, suicide, and death, chances were he'd be in a lot better shape.

Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.

Men are naturally unequal. They are unequal members of one family, in which one can be brilliant, another mediocre, and another an imbecile. Hereditary substance is a mystery.

Hoy las pulgas de la peste negra se han refugiado en las costuras de la Red, cuyos enlaces expanden una imbecilidad planetaria con fiebre y delirios en la mayoría de los usuarios, que no cesan de llenar de vómitos todo el espacio.

It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.

Mr. Frederick Parker spent a good deal of his time in endeavouring to mask, under a cloak of boisterous good humour, a really remarkable combination of malevolence and imbecility.