Quotes About Idiocy

The world has not yet such a thermometer or measure that can check one's idiocy.

To a certain extent, it is my weak point and flaw that I cannot abide and avoid the idiocy of the idiots, the lies of the liars, and the ignorance of the ignorant.

To be silent upon the idiocy is substantial diplomacy; subsequently, to be silent upon cruelty is grave cruelty.

You manufacture weapons; you sell; you earn; you conspire and misguide to burn for new manufacturing; your crime circles in this circle, and you determine for global peace; it is evil trade; it is the idiocy of idiots. Peace will undoubtedly appear and fragrance whenever you will realize your awkward interests, devilish policies, and the hegemony of greediness.

For the lost are lost by nature, all your ideas of moral regeneration will make no difference, there is AN INNATE DETERMINISM, there is an undeniable incurability in suicide, crime, idiocy, madness, there is an invincible cuckoldry in man, there is a congenital weakness of the character, a castration of the mind.

He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot.

Ma è sempre così: il tempo di distogliere il pensiero dal quotidiano, da se stessi e dallo spezzatino, e ti scappa un'idiozia.

What could destroy us more quickly than working, thinking, and feeling without any inner necessity, without any deeply personal choice, without pleasure - as an automaton of duty? This is the very recipe for decadence, even for idiocy.

O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in the truth, and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely—il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien—I wager he finds nothing!

I was a brand new senator in 2013. And the idiocy of Congress was to shut the government down for two weeks in October. And coming out of that, the pressure was put on the budget chair, Paul Ryan's shoulders and Patty Murray. Conservative Wisconsin Republican, progressive Washington Democrat, come up with a budget deal.

I really can't abide conspiracy theories, because I believe that everything in the world stems from idiocy and incompetence. That's certainly true of most of what's happened in Russia under Putin.

I mean it's a concept born out of moral idiocy, this idea of love!

And one bite, and I'm their slave?" – Sundown "Exactly." – Sin "And who thought this would be a good idea?" – Sundown "Don't get me started. There are idiots in all pantheons. Some days, I think the Sumerians had more than their fair share, and I only hope the idiocy is congenital and not something contracted later in life. Otherwise, I'm even more screwed." – Sin

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.

This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

And his left nipple was centimetres above my right eye. I wanted to lean my head back and lick it – not from desire but from that idiocy always there to subvert desire and render it ludicrous. Our human heat was a third creature bevelling between us.

Every time an idiot dies, your IQ goes down.

The ridiculousness and idiocy of life is embraced and examined. It nurtures the childhood perspective in everyone.

It should be worth the Courage Scar," said Harold from above, "don't you think so?" "What?" I asked. "Stealing a wench from the House of Saphrar and returning on a stolen tarn." "Undoubtedly," I grumbled. I found myself wondering if the Tuchuks had an Idiocy Scar.

Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.

It makes sense that we came up with our public school system during the Industrial Revolution because it's like everybody is a factory worker, eating their terrible food and going back to the room where you're silent and listening to an idiot. That's an epitomizing idea, getting called 'Nothing' for your whole high school experience.

As if one's capacity for pain had anything to do with life's apportionment of agonies, Mr. Kimmelbrod thought. Such idiocy.

When lust descends, discretion, common sense and wisdom fly off and what may seem cunning concealment to one in the grip of passion looks like transparently clumsy idiocy to everyone else.