my credo, “Oftimes it seems to me, ‘patriotic’ rhymes with…

“and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.”

— Herman Melville

It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

“When Dr. James Young Simpson sought to apply anesthesia to a woman in childbirth, the clergymen of his day foamed at the mouth and…

— Joseph Lewis

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Most of the people I know who smoke marijuana are not very bright and what they talk about when they're stoned, they think they're…

— Andie MacDowell

Nothing is more intimidating than an idiotic grin worn by a manifest non-idiot.

— Eric Frank Russell

The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The object of life is not happiness, but to serve God or the Grail. All of the Grail quests are to serve God. If…

— Robert A. Johnson

The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges…

— Noam Chomsky

Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that…

— Matt Taibbi

“To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.”

— Cicero

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say…

— Paul Auster

People will say you cannot get a job in a down economy. People will say you cannot get a job that you love that…

— Soledad O'Brien

Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself…

— Lord Chesterfield

[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.

— Albert Camus