All Quotes By Tag: Stupidity
“Of course, even before Flaubert, people knew stupidity existed, but they understood it somewhat differently: it was considered a simple absence of knowledge, a defect correctable by education. In Flaubert’s novels, stupidity is an inseparable dimension of human existence. It accompanies poor Emma throughout her days, to her bed of love and to her deathbed, over which two deadly agélastes, Homais and Bournisien, go on endlessly trading their inanities like a kind of funeral oration. But the most shocking, the most scandalous thing about Flaubert’s vision of stupidity is this: Stupidity does not give way to science, technology, modernity, progress; on the contrary, it progresses right along with progress!”
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“The Internet is the aggregate of human derpitude.Listening to the Internet without being confident you’ve found a well-curated garden relative to the area of concern is a bad idea.”
“Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.”
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“Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.”
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“I am a scientist, and as such I am proud to say that being stupid at times is a very human thing. Be proud to be stupid, be proud to be fool. Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect. I admit I am a fool, but at the very least, with each passing day I do my best to get lesser fool.”
“It is better to be foolish than a dilettante.”
“There is a fine line between stubbornness and stupidity as well as intensity and insanity.”
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“Shallow intellect is worse than ignorance. Ignorance can be treated with knowledge, but shallow intellect, that is illusion of knowledge, is untreatable and quite dangerous to the progress and wellbeing of humanity.”
“Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.”
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“I was well-read but perhaps that only made me stupid.”
“Having a fine relationship is good, but its absence doesn’t nullify your success in life. You shouldn’t be in it as a result of societal pressure, neither should you be ridiculed because you’re not in it. It’s an act of idiocy to place so much value on marital status when there are other better things to catch up with.”
“In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved himself a latter-day Voltairean by whimpering that he could see how this might shake belief in a friendly creator. Williamson is of course a notorious fool, who does an almost perfect imitation of a bleating and frightened sheep, but even so, one is forced to rub one’s eyes in astonishment. Is it possible that a grown man could live so long and still have his personal composure, not to mention his lifetime job description, upset by a large ripple of seawater?”
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“The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that time.”
“Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.”
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