Encounters Quote by Jean Cocteau Download Open image “Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.” — Jean Cocteau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Encounters Matter Stupidity
Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
“No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that: a) people whom one… — Carlo M. Cipolla Copy Share Image
Stupidity it is when an individual takes their precious time to repeat the same wrong things again and again intentionally. — Tshepo Koos Maluleke Copy Share Image
What is stupidity? It is when you still communicating the person you need to forget. — Kara Angela Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden… — Daniel K Judd Copy Share Image
Gun control laws don't work. What is worse, they act perversely. While legitimate users of firearms encounter intense regulation, scrutiny and bureaucratic control, illicit… — Daniel D. Polsby Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us! — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The truly still mind, with which you were born, is the mind that moves freely. Without ignoring anything, it reacts wholeheartedly to everything it… — Soko Morinaga Copy Share Image
If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source of true… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become a person… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
My first encounter with yoga was in 1969 with my older brother Doug. I was thirteen years old, and he was eighteen. He'd learned… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it. — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
