Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton LaVey

Stupidity-The top of the list for Satanic Sins.

Robert Cormier

You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.

Walter Bagehot

Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.

Saul Bellow

Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.

William Booth

It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.

John Cleese

The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.

Mark Smith

There is no consistency at all from town to town.

Johnny Sauter

We've been working all season to find some consistency in the program, and early on it ran - let's just say - a little hot and cold, with a really good run sandwiched in between two DNFs,

Marty Schottenheimer

We've got to get the coverage to a point where there's more consistency in it.

Shawn Green

He's been incredible all year. From the latter part of spring training on, he's been a machine. I've never seen a guy with as limited number of at-bats put up the numbers he's been putting up, with consistency and in key situations.

Stan Heath

I'm looking for consistency. I'm looking for solid production -- and that doesn't necessarily mean scoring.

Steve Nielsen

I'm looking to get more out of my starters, Boyle and McAdams, and hopefully, consistency will come with each performance.

Sean Carney

I'm just looking for some consistency. And we're getting that now.

Odalis Perez

I mixed my pitches and threw my fastball with more consistency. Everything is working.

Bryant Kitty

I have no idea what team it was to be honest with you. There's really no consistency, no heart.

Jim Baker

He said he wouldn't sell out to the special interests, and it's my opinion that he has,

Umberto Eco

It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.

Winston Churchill

Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.

Jim Rogers

Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whome have never looked at whether the facts support the received wisdom. It's a basic fact of life that many things "everybody knows" turn out to be wrong.

Luther Burbank

All my work has come about through a change in my earlier opinion of religion.

Tony McCoy

The criticism does not hurt because I have always been my own worst critic. I wouldn't say I don't respect other people's opinions, but my opinion is the most important.

Napoleon Hill

The habit of expressing loosely organized opinions is one of the most destructive of habits.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Power is founded upon opinion.

Epictetus

It is not things in themselves which trouble us, but our opinions of things.