Quotes About Idiocy

If one searches for Christ—the Truth, the Light, the Beauty—in the world or in heaven "in order to destroy him", not to adore him and love him, but to manipulate and conform him to our desires, it would have been better to have remained at the level of an idiocy that does not search at all.

I've actually seen guys who I considered relatively stupid college coaches, then go to the NFL, and sanctimoniously think they understand that something the rest of us couldn't perceive. They're an idiot before, they're an idiot now, and they'll be an idiot afterwords. It's mind-numbing.

There is no sincere stupidity that doesn't create, eventually, its own rationale, conduct, operating procedures, its own critical formulae whereby it may be, in all seriousness, discussed: witness the advertising business. Witness the best-seller list. Areas of idiocy within which various degrees of the spurious are compared.

The Arabs have a God, the Jews have another, and the Catholics have another! And they're all fighting to maintain that they worship the one real God. Idiots!

The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.

Lessons? Oh no. I didn't need lessons." He glanced up and found her shaking her head in disgust at her own idiocy. "You see, Sissy said I wouldn't need lessons. 'You're a shifter,' she said. 'We can do anything,' she said.

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.

In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.

We can write idiots quite well.

My job is to write opinions. I decide cases and write opinions. It is not to respond to idiocy and critics who make statements that are unfounded. That doesn't mean that people shouldn't have constructive criticisms, but it should be constructive.

Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.

Quien no quiere pensar es un fanático; quien no puede pensar es un idiota; quien no osa pensar es un cobarde.

Then the idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,All centuries but this, and every country but his own.

Of the stupidity of men there seems no end.

The only thing anyone inherits by right of birth in the Soviet Union is congenital idiocy.

E para de falar porque volta a descobrir uma verdade universal que esquece todos os dias quando se deita. O mundo é conduzido por medíocres, egoístas e idiotas. Sobretudo estes últimos

Luego se detiene, pues vuelve a descubrir una verdad universal que olvida cada día cuando se acuesta. El mundo está manejado por los mediocres, los egoístas y los idiotas. Muy especialmente estos últimos.

Degrade first the arts if you'd mankind degrade, Hire idiots to paint with cold light and hot shade.

The regulation side of things is, as a rule, less vulnerable to the short-term idiocy of a new administration than the money side of things.

Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?

Idiocy is the essence of the male mind.

Get us to prove to the world that superstition is idiocy and all the demons are dust.

Now that I think about it, it seems to me that's what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you like, so that a drawing on the wall does not have to be diminished by the memory of the frescoes of Giotto in Padua.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.