Absurd Quote by Thomas Steinbeck

An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the…

— W.N.P. Barbellion

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

— Criss Jami

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.

— Sylvia Nasar

All the knowledge that I have doesn't necessarily make me brilliant, but I love acquiring knowledge and then sharing it with everybody else.

— Sandra Bullock

I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their…

— Margaret Caroline Anderson

When you are a great scholar of stupidity, logics and marketing, you can do practically everthing, from business to trading, from spiritual research to…

— William C. Brown

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not…

— Rowan Atkinson

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

— Soren Kierkegaard

I am someone who values knowledge, actual knowledge. I also value stories and fiction a whole lot, and that's where the fake knowledge comes…

— John Hodgman

Knowing what you don't know is more useful than being brilliant.

— Charlie Munger

The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.

— Frank X. Barron

A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable.

— Mason Cooley