"There is no polite way to suggest to……" — Daniel Dennett
"There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly."
—
Daniel Dennett
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
101 Quotes by Daniel Dennett
Daniel Dennett has 101 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
-
I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether…
-
A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.
-
Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
-
There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
-
True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don't…
-
The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be…
-
There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?
-
Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea…
-
Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millenia, and it has…
-
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died
-
In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All…
See all 101 quotes by Daniel Dennett »
More Devoted Quotes
This quote is filed under Devoted Quotes,
one of 515 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he…
— Christian Bale
-
All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web…
— Mario Batali
-
My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted…
— Annie Besant
-
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
-
I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
— Theodore Bikel
-
Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend…
— Derek Bok
-
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive…
— Warren Buffett
-
Former vice president Al Gore has devoted his post-administration years to a mission to tell the world about global warming.…
— Graydon Carter
-
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose…
— Jimmy Carter
-
I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the…
— Eric Alterman
-
You know, it's a big version of an episode, which I think is necessary at this point because we're drawing…
— Gillian Anderson
-
When a couple of young people strongly devoted to each other commence to eat onions, it is safe to pronounce…
— James Montgomery Bailey
See all 515 Devoted Quotes »