Human beings Quote by Kurt Vonnegut Download Open image “Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.” — Kurt Vonnegut ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human beings Humanity Humans Inspirational Thinking Time
We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that. — Ivan Stang Copy Share Image
To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's intelligence, not… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The dumber people are, the more they feel the need for a broad set of shoulders they can lay their head against. — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I feel like the world is getting dumber. I don't necessarily think people are stupid, but I think we're getting dumber. — J.I.D Copy Share Image
Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never, ever read the comments below an article on the Web. People are mean. I'm a human being. — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
There are two types of people in the world: dumb smart people and smart dumb people. — Alex Cooper Copy Share Image
The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated… — Hanns Eisler Copy Share Image