Quotes About Simple-minded

The very simple-minded have often the genius to commit an uncomplicated crime and then leave it alone.

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

Yeah, I would love to play someone really dumb, just really foolish.

When I wrote I took on the role of the despondent and difficult to understand person. Whereas in life, I was easy to understand, to the point of being simple-minded maybe.

As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.

The over-determined human mind would rather have everything relevant, even if the relevance is simple-minded.

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

When I smiled my relief and surprise, the man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach

I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me.

El mundo es mucho más fácil cuando eres idiota, porque una de las bendiciones de serlo es que no sabes que lo eres.

In contrast to status quo conservatism, authoritarianism is primarily driven not by aversion to change (difference over time) but by aversion to complexity (difference across space). In a nutshell, authoritarians are "simple-minded avoiders of complexity more than closed-minded avoiders of change" (Stenner 2009b: 193).

Judges are apt to be naive, simple-minded men.

Besides, Oblonsky was fond of a pleasant joke, and sometimes liked to perplex a simple-minded man by observing that if you're going to be proud of your ancestry, why stop short at prince Rurik and repudiate your oldest ancestor-- the ape?

We're simple-minded, the team at Hulu, which is, we think if we can obsess over quality and build a better mousetrap, that good things will happen. Users will adopt the service, advertisers will see great value in it, and that's what we're seeing.

Libertarianism. A simple-minded right-wing ideology ideally suited to those unable or unwilling to see past their own sociopathic self-regard.