stupidity

A Quote by Gilbert Keith Chesterton on cleverness, equality, men, and stupidity

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. There is no big man who has not felt small. Some men never feel small; but these are the few men who are.

Gilbert Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

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A Quote by George Eliot on stupidity

Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.

George Eliot (1819 - 1880)

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A Quote by George Eliot on death, feeling, heart, lies, silence, stupidity, and vision

If we had a keen vision and feeling it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of the roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.

George Eliot (1819 - 1880)

Source: Middlemarch, bk. 2, ch. 20, 1872.

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A Quote by George Bernard Shaw on danger, sincerity, and stupidity

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

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A Quote by George Bernard Shaw on duty and stupidity

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Source: Cæsar and Cleopatra

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A Quote by Gamel Abdel Nasser on clarity, genius, possibility, stupidity, and wonder

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing.

Gamel Abdel Nasser

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A Quote by G. Dyer on beginning, evil, men, stupidity, war, and world

This is a picture of the British High Command at the beginning of World War I. These aren't evil men - some of them aren't even stupid.

G. Dyer

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A Quote by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller on stupidity

Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich Schiller (1759 - 1805)

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A Quote by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller on stupidity

Visualize whirled peas. Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich Schiller (1759 - 1805)

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A Quote by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller on struggle and stupidity

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Friedrich Schiller (1759 - 1805)

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