"People can be teachers and idiots; they can……" — Iain Banks
"People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think they have to be... a genius can be an idiot. The world is largely run for and by idiots; it is no great handicap in life and in certain areas is actually a distinct advantage and even a prerequisite for advancement."
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85 Quotes by Iain Banks
Iain Banks has 85 quotes on this site.
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I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog,…
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I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year…
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with…
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there…
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as…
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write.…
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Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you…
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You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end…
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Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.
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I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is…
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Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.
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As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines…
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More Advancement Quotes
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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement…
— Niels Bohr
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Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in…
— Christopher Bond
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a…
— William S. Burroughs
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Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.
— Clarence Clemons
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The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot…
— George Washington
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The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . .…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career…
— Patrick Lencioni
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A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it…
— Eric Hoffer
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I remember that after that teaching given to me as a young man, as a boy, almost, by the President…
— Heber J. Grant
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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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