Quotes of: Imbecility Keyword

When a finger points at the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger.

Chinese

Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.

Eugenics, the Science of Human Improvement by Better Breeding

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

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

Billy Wilder

An imbecile can manage his own affairs better than a wise man the affairs of other people.

Arabian

It is worth remembering one of the important lessons of the Buck story: a small number of zealous advocates can have an impact on the law that defies both science and conventional wisdom.

Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell

Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

Camillo di Cavour

Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.

Noam Chomsky

He was a young man of savage & unexpected originality, a diseased genius & quite frankly, a mad genius. Imbeciles grow insane & in their insanity the imbecility remains stagnant or agitated; in the madness of a man of genius some genius often remains...

The Book of Masks

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.

Rosa Bonheur

I'm technologically an imbecile. But I do use the camera phone!

Amanda Peet

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

Tristan Tzara

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Albert Schweitzer

The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.

Warren Cuccurullo

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

Hilaire Belloc

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.

Alexandre Dumas

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

Umberto Eco

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

Camille Pissarro

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

Jeanne Moreau

Driver: If there's no room at the Hotel Genius, I'll take a room at the Hotel Imbecile.

Night on Earth

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

Victoria Woodhull