Imbecile Quotes

56 quotes by 50 authors

Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile. — Noam Chomsky
The mother of the imbecile is always pregnant, — Vincenzo Nibali
There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four. — Umberto Eco
To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events. — David Hume
An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself. — Remy de Gourmont
By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than… — Carrie P Snow
An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its CÃ¦sar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon… — George Bernard Shaw
The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile. — Warren Cuccurullo
If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile. — Umberto Eco
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. — Albert Schweitzer
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is… — Billy Wilder
Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that. — Agatha Christie
Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile. — Spider Robinson
I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the… — E. M. Forster
Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is,… — Vincent Van Gogh
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting...but no good reason to ever hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty hates with you, too.… — Kurt Vonnegut
When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger. — Confucius
The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run… — Alvin Toffler
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

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