Benefits Quote by George Santayana

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.

— George Santayana

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.

— Bill Mollison

Stupidity is what we all have in common as human beings, but some people insist that improving it is their entitlement.

— Pete Edochie

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.

— Baron de Montesquieu

That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea of perfection…

— Giacomo Leopardi

In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way…

— Walter Kirn

An ideal is an unselfish aspiration. Its purpose is the general welfare not only of this but of future generations. It is a thing…

— Herbert Hoover

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

— Karl Marx

Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

— Leo Buscaglia

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every…

— Robert Musil