Imbeciles Quotes
86 Imbeciles quotes by 78 unique authors
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Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.
— Charles Davenport
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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…
— Frederick The Great
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I don't know whether the world is full of smart men bluffing or imbeciles who mean it.
— Morrie Brickman
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To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of…
— Robert E. Sherwood
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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
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Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to…
— Aldous Huxley
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The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for a rational social…
— Noam Chomsky
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Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.
— Jeanne Moreau
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With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process…
— Charles Darwin
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Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.
— Noam Chomsky
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The mother of the imbecile is always pregnant,
— Vincenzo Nibali
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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,…
— Georges Courteline
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There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
— Umberto Eco
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To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
— David Hume
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The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
— Vanessa Paradis
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An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.
— Remy de Gourmont
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The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.
— Rosa Bonheur
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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
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Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles.
— Paul Cezanne
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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
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No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.
— Warren Cuccurullo
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If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
— Umberto Eco
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it…
— C.S. Lewis
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