Cultivation Quote by William Gaddis Download Open image “Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.” — William Gaddis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cultivation Ignorance Stupidity
Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
There are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to achieve. — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
Stupidity is not an unfulfilled wisdom. Stupidity is an unique product on its own. — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
As far as humanity is concerned the origin of stupidity is itself. — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
“That after an hour's silence he can say, The one thing I cannot stand is dampness... That's all, it took him an hour to… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“What is it they want from a man that they didn't get from his work? What do they expect? What is there left of… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“-We live in Rome, he says, turning his face to the room again, -Caligula's Rome, with a new circus of vulgar bestialized suffering in… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“It is a naked city. Faith is not pampered, nor hope encouraged; there is no place to lay one's exhaustion: but instead pinnacles skewer… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“-And there's this twelve thousand dollars item for books. -That supposed to be twelve hundred, the twelve thousand is for paper. towels. Besides there… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“There was the cell where Fr. Eulalio, a thriving lunatic of eighty-six who was castigating himself for unchristian pride at having all the vowels… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“Venerable age had not, for him, arranged that derelict landscape against which it is privileged to sit and pick its nose, break wind, and… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“They write for people who read with the surface of their minds, people with reading habits that make the smallest demands on them, people… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are. — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“Esther liked books out where everyone could see them, a sort of graphic index to the intricate labyrinth of her mind arrayed to impress… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“What greater comfort does time afford, than the objects of terror re-encountered, and their fraudulence exposed in the flash of reason?” — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“The function of this school is custodial. It’s here to keep these kids off the streets until the girls are big enough to get… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for… — Gary Ryan Blair Copy Share Image
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass,… — Dogen Copy Share Image
In the Middle East, bread is so essential to everyday life that word for it in Egyptian Arabic is aish, which means life. It's… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture… — George Will Copy Share Image
To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil, is enough… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called 'fair… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
