Imbeciles Quotes - Page 4

• I still partially suffer from the delusion that if you explain things logically and systematically, most people will abandon their emotional prejudices and respond to logic. But I don't suffer from that delusion as wholeheartedly as I did in the past. So if there's a fundamental difference, it's that I've accepted the fact that most imbeciles will never 'get' me and I shouldn't allow myself to get so upset about it.

  Jim Goad

  Past, Emotional, Differences

  Fuente: love-and-pop.com

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• There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears.

  Victor Hugo

  Nature, Ignorance, Mean

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• Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Sarcastic, Jazz, Torture

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• ""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile, "fly with me! Be mine! Share with me the wild free life of a barrister! Say that you return the love which consumes my heart - oh, say it!" Here Bob put his hand over a hole in his waistcoat and struck a dramatic attitude.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Girl, Attitude, Humorous

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, John Michael Gibson, Richard Lancelyn Green (1982). “Uncollected stories”, Harvill Secker

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• Así que, cortando las amarras del barril de fósforos a prueba de agua, después de muchos fracasos, Starbuck se las ingenió para encender la lámpara en el farol; luego, tendiéndola en un palo, se la entregó a Queequeg como abanderado de esta esperanza desamparada. Allí estaba sentado, sosteniendo aquella vela imbécil en el corazón de aquel desamparo todopoderoso. Allí, entonces, estaba sentado, el signo y el símbolo de un hombre sin fe, sosteniendo desesperadamente la esperanza en medio de la desesperación.

  Herman Melville

  Esperanza, Corazón, Corte

  Herman Melville, General Press (2016). "Moby Dick", p.242, GENERAL PRESS

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• An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Rights, Giving, Purpose

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• To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

  David Hume

  Stupidity, Events, Ordinary

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• ¡Qué quimera es, pues, el hombre, qué novedad, qué monstruo, qué caos, qué objeto de contradicción, qué prodigio! Juez de todas las cosas, pero lombriz imbécil; depositario de la verdad, pero cloaca de incertidumbre y error; orgullo y desecho del universo. ¿Quién resolverá esta maraña?

  Blaise Pascal

  Truth, Pride, Men

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• Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.

  R. D. Laing

  Children, Fool, Dirty Minds

  "The Politics of Experience". Book by Ronald David Laing, p. 58, 1967.

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• The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse. By Jove! I've never seen anything so unreal in my life. And outside, the silent wilderness surrounding this cleared speck on the earth struck me as something great and invincible, like evil or truth, waiting patiently for the passing away of this fantastic invasion.

  Joseph Conrad

  Thinking, Air, Ivory

  Joseph Conrad (2002). “Heart of Darkness and Other Tales”, p.125, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread to our Europe, where some fanatics espoused it, where some intriguers pretended to be convinced by it and where some imbeciles actually believed it.

  Federico el Grande

  Europe, Imagination, Fiction

  Attributed to Frederick II of Prussia in "Civilization: The West and the Rest", Book by Niall Ferguson, 2011.

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• The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Atheist, Imagine, Proof

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.71, Random House

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• Los hombres siempre han sido presa de las distracciones, que son los pecados originales de la mente; pero nunca antes se había intentado organizar y explotar las distracciones, hacer de ellas, por su importancia económica, el núcleo y centro vital de la vida humana, idealizarlas como las manifestaciones más elevadas de la actividad mental. La nuestra es una época de irrelevancias sistematizadas, y el imbécil que llevamos dentro se ha convertido en uno de los Titanes, sobre cuyos hombros descansa el peso del sistema social y económico

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Irrelevance, Origin Of Life

  Aldous Huxley (1992). “Huxley and God: essays”, Harpercollins

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• La religión se basa en la idea de que Dios es un imbécil.

  Noam Chomsky

  Ideas

  Interview with David Samuels, chomsky.info. November 12, 2010.

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• One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles.

  Georges Courteline

  Children, Parent, Idiot

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• Quien califique mi música de "impresionista" es un imbécil.

  Claude Debussy

  Impresionistas

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• As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Practice, Asking, Cents

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• It was stealing her breath, imbecile. Go get a towel." -Christophe, Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Angel, Crow, Towels

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• Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

  Agatha Christie

  Missing, Half, Hercule Poirot

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• And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Princesa, Corazón, Jardín

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• Mi querida criatura, he terminado con todo debate. Pero tú sabes tan bien como yo, que patriotismo es una palabra; y una que generalmente viene a significar o MI PAÍS, CORRECTO O INCORRECTO, lo cual es infame, o MI PAÍS SIEMPRE TIENE LA DERECHA, lo cual es imbécil.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Country, Mean, Jingoism

  Patrick O'Brian (1990). “Master and Commander (Vol. Book 1)”, p.194, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.

  Molly Ringwald

  Hero, Kids, Parent

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Brave, Bulldogs, Lobster

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.36, Zillmann Publishing

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• Only a f-kin imbecile would think they un-correctable, cause you're susceptible to becoming more than a spectacle.

  Técnica inmortal

  Thinking, Causes, Becoming

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• Nos parece que en la inteligencia hay una facultad fundamental, cuya alteración o carencia es de la mayor importancia para la vida práctica. Esta facultad es el juicio, también llamado buen sentido, sentido práctico, iniciativa, la facultad de adaptarse uno mismo a las circunstancias. Una persona puede ser un imbécil o un imbécil si carece de juicio; pero con buen juicio nunca puede ser ni lo uno ni lo otro. De hecho, el resto de las facultades intelectuales parecen de poca importancia en comparación con el juicio.

  Alfred Binet

  Self, Intellectual, Fundamentals

  "The development of intelligence in children" by Alfred Binet, Théodore Simon, translated by Elizabeth S. Kite, Reprinted 1973, New York: Arno Press, (pp. 42-43), 1983.

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