#stupidity

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#comes #everything #having #novel #people

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#doctor #lawyer #mankind #sees #stupidity

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know? ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#children #down #enjoy #front #i

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#discipline #dishonesty #punishes #stupidity #word

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity. ↗

— Tilda Swinton

#extreme #get #i #intense #kind

Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#could #day #due #encounter #entirely

When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#literature #literature-quotes #poetry #poetry-quotes #quotes

Dzieje kultury wykazują, ze głupota jest siostrą bliźniaczą rozumu, ona rośnie najbujniej nie na glebie dziewiczej ignorancji , lecz na gruncie uprawnym siódmym potem doktorów i profesorów. Wielkie absurdy nie są wymyślane przez tych, których rozum krząta się wokół spraw codziennych. Nic dziwnego zatem, że właśnie najintensywniejsi myśliciele bywali producentami największego głupstwa. / The history of culture shows that foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom. It does not flourish on the fields of pure ignorance but on the fields tirelessly plowed by doctors and professors. Great absurdities do not flourish where one is busy with everyday life. No wonder that sometimes most vigorous thinkers come up with utmost stupidities. (Dziennik 1956, XIX, Thursday) ↗

— Witold Gombrowicz

#stupidity #wisdom #business

As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done; I have to look ahead. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#love #moving-forward #people #stupidity #love

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. ↗

— Erwin Rommel

#commander #courage #expediency #goes #insisted