Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Davison

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

Albert Einstein

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

J. M. Coetzee

Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping Aesopian messages past the censor is ultimately a sterile one, diverting writers from their proper task.

Malcolm X

The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

Malcolm X

One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for yourself. If you form the habit of going by what you hear others say about someone, or going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking west when you think you're going east, and you will be walking east when you think you're going west.

Johannes Kepler

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

James Howard Kunstler

I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.

James Richardson

Those who are too slow to be intelligent deserve our patience, those who are too quick, our pity.

Steve Madden

I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.

Socrates

The more I know, the more I know that I don't know.

Mason Cooley

Nobody likes to offer stupidity as an excuse.

Gore Vidal

The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.

Gerald R. Ford

I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in.

Frank Herbert

Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

Jesse Ventura

You can't legislate stupidity.

Paullina Simons

I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.

Jonathan Gruber

Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.