46 Quotes About Idiot

Nobility is a lie. A pretence that high standing comes from anything more than money or martial prowess. Any dolt can play the noble, and as you'll discover in time, daughter, it's mostly dolts who do. Anthony Ryan

Beliefs are a powerful thing. I often travel the world and sometimes the local waitresses attending me are nervous if they can’t speak English. Now, when this happens, I point at the pictures in the menu. However, I’ve noticed that the ones with the strongest beliefs, the most nervous ones, still do a mistake in my order. Another interesting things to notice in these situations is that, when I correct them, by pointing again at what I ordered before, they recognize their mistake, but get angry, as if their mistake was my fault, and that’s called irresponsibility. Now, when you combine irresponsibility with the wrong beliefs, you have a a very dumb person. That’s what stupidity is, it’s a human being doing the wrong things with the wrong beliefs and never ever accepting any responsibility for it. That’s how those with the lowest spiritual conscience behave in general with themselves and others. Robin Sacredfire

Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with low SAT scores. The only differences among us is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot. Scott Adams

POLONIUS My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently. H A M L E T Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? P O L O N I U S By th'mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed. H A M L E T Methinks it is like a weasel. P O L O N I U S It is backed like a weasel. H A M L E T Or like a whale? P O L O N I U S Very like a whale. H A M L E T Then I will come to my mother by and by. - They fool me to the top of my bent. - I will come by and by. William Shakespeare

Let me say this: being an idiot is no box of chocolates. People laugh, lose patience, treat you shabby. Now they say folks supposed to be kind to the afflicted, but let me tell you this - it ain't always that way. Even so, I got no complaints, cause I reckon I done live a pretty interesting life, so to speak. Winston Groom

Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart. Raheel Farooq

When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy. Michael Bassey Johnson

Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete silence - their speech centres are destroyed - except for the crackle of sparks and the popping of singed flesh as they apply electrodes up and down the spine. White smoke of burning flesh hangs in the motionless air. A group of children have tied an idiot to a post with barbed wire and built a fire between his legs and stand watching with bestial curiosity as the flames lick his thighs. His flesh jerks in the fire with insect agony. William S. Burroughs

I'll make a book on learning how to be a complete moron someday, and I'm sure no one will buy it, because everyone will have mastered that already by the time I gather enough moronism to process it into digestible upgrade instructions for your average village cyborg-idiot. Will Advise

We make, see, and love films, not digitals. To convert all of our movies, home videos, theaters, photographs and television to digital would be like telling a painter to throw away his brushes and canvas for an I-Pad. Celluloid isn't just nostalgic, it's an art form and, like it or not, it's superior to digital. It lasts much longer, it provides grain and brighter colors, and it takes more effort so that it produces something wonderful. With the inferior binary codes, pixels and untested shelf-life of digital files, plus the fact that these days anyone with a digital camera, even a two-year-old, can make a video and pollute the world with self-photography and cat pictures, film has a lot more integrity and worth than digital. Rebecca McNutt

There's no point in arguing with an idiot - save for exposing their stupidity in their own words. Christina Engela

I am the kid who sticks her finger in the light socket. I am the person who doesn't check the expiration date on the milk. I am the idiot who has never looked before she leaped. I am the girl who is falling apart, right now. Amy Garvey

Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers. Anthony Liccione

Why do women waste their time trying to convince their insecure family members and girlfriends that they are beautiful? Self esteem is not a beauty cream that you can rub all over them and see instant results. Instead, convince them they are not stupid. Every intelligent woman knows outward beauty is a nip, tuck, chemical peel or diet away. If you don't like it, fix it. Shannon L. Alder

People usually will remember people most, for the stupid things they did, than the impressionable ones. This somehow strangely, makes them feel better. Anthony Liccione

What an idiot I'd been. What a spoilt brat. What a bloody fool. David Millar

I am not afraid, ” she said; which seemed quite presumptuous enough.“ You are not afraid of suffering?”“ Yes, I am afraid of suffering. But I am not afraid of ghosts. And I think people suffer too easily, ” she added.“ I don’t believe you do, ” said Ralph, looking at her with his hands in his pockets.“ I don’t think that’s a fault, ” she answered. “It is not absolutely necessary to suffer; we were not made for that.”“ You were not, certainly.”“ I am not speaking of myself.” And she turned away a little.“ No, it isn’t a fault, ” said her cousin. “It’s a merit to be strong.”“ Only, if you don’t suffer, they call you hard, ” Isabel remarked. They passed out of the smaller drawing-room, into which they had returned from the gallery, and paused in the hall, at the foot of the staircase. Here Ralph presented his companion with her bed-room candle, which he had taken from a niche. “Never mind what they call you, ” he said. “When you do suffer, they call you an idiot. The great point is to be as happy as possible. . Henry James

Yes, failure is part of the mix, he says, but it is a means, not an end. If you fail repeatedly, and in the same manner, you're an idiot, not a genius. Eric Weiner

These are the words of a fool: I am happy to be a fool, for i won't spend my time gazing at lines difficult to decipher, while my mates are drinking with glee. Michael Bassey Johnson

My feelings towards it can only be paralleled by that of a doting parent towards an idiot child. Unknown

The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a 'hypothesis, ' but the word 'hypothesis, ' though euphonious, dignified and high-sounding, is merely a scientific synonym for the old-fashioned word 'guess.' If Darwin had advanced his views as a guess they would not have survived for a year, but they have floated for half a century, buoyed up by the inflated word 'hypothesis.' When it is understood that “hypothesis” means 'guess, ' people will inspect it more carefully before accepting it. William Jennings Bryan

Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of a lack of evidence or because of intellectual difficulties: at root, he refuses to come because he willingly ignores and rejects the drawing of God's Spirit on his heart. No one in the final analysis fails to become a Christian because of a lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with god. William Lane Craig

The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better. William Saroyan

No one believes he is an idiot until the consequences of his actions prove it. Then hindsight rubs it in. Richelle E. Goodrich

It will take time to restore chaos George W. Bush

It isn't against the Law to be an idiot. Cassandra Clare

Your soulmate wasn't suppose to be perfect. You were meant to see the cracks in her soul and fill them with what you have and she was meant to see yours. Together you would be complete. Shannon L. Alder

He was not at the moment in very good odour at Bow Street. Such epithets as Blockhead and Blunderer had been used in connection with his last case. 'Jeremiah Stubbs, miss, ’ said the Runner. ‘I am here in the execution of my dooty. Georgette Heyer

Don't delete it, don't are you an idiot??? Yes or No??You have done it and now you must get the consequences, like it or not that's a lesson you must learn it. Deyth Banger

Without a response, I just stand there like an idiot. Like she just slapped my brain out of my skull and I can’t think. Rebecca A. Rogers

The Idiot. I have read it once, and find that I don't remember the events of the book very well--or even all the principal characters. But mostly the 'portrait of a truly beautiful person' that dostoevsky supposedly set out to write in that book. And I remember how Myshkin seemed so simple when I began the book, but by the end, I realized how I didn't understand him at all. the things he did. Maybe when I read it again it will be different. But the plot of these dostoevsky books can hold such twists and turns for the first-time reader-- I guess that's b/c he was writing most of these books as serials that had to have cliffhangers and such. But I make marks in my books, mostly at parts where I see the author's philosophical points standing in the most stark relief. My copy of Moby Dick is positively full of these marks. The Idiot, I find has a few.. Part 3, Section 5. The sickly Ippolit is reading from his 'Explanation' or whatever its called. He says his convictions are not tied to him being condemned to death. It's important for him to describe, of happiness: "you may be sure that Columbus was happy not when he had discovered America, but when he was discovering it." That it's the process of life--not the end or accomplished goals in it--that matter. Well. Easier said than lived! Part 3, Section 6. more of Ippolit talking--about a christian mindset. He references Jesus's parable of The Word as seeds that grow in men, couched in a description of how people are interrelated over time; its a picture of a multiplicity. Later in this section, he relates looking at a painting of Christ being taken down from the cross, at Rogozhin's house. The painting produced in him an intricate metaphor of despair over death "in the form of a huge machine of the most modern construction which, dull and insensible, has aimlessly clutched, crushed, and swallowed up a great priceless Being, a Being worth all nature and its laws, worth the whole earth, which was created perhaps solely for the sake of the advent of this Being." The way Ippolit's ideas are configured, here, reminds me of the writings of Gilles Deleuze. And the phrasing just sort of remidns me of the way everyone feels--many people feel crushed by the incomprehensible machine, in life. Many people feel martyred in their very minor ways. And it makes me think of the concept that a narrative religion like Christianity uniquely allows for a kind of socialized or externalized, shared experience of subjectivity. Like, we all know the story of this man--and it feels like our own stories at the same time. Part 4, Section 7. Myshkin's excitement (leading to a seizure) among the Epanchin's dignitary guests when he talks about what the nobility needs to become ("servants in order to be leaders"). I'm drawn to things like this because it's affirming, I guess, for me: "it really is true that we're absurd, that we're shallow, have bad habits, that we're bored, that we don't know how to look at things, that we can't understand; we're all like that." And of course he finds a way to make that into a good thing. which, it's pointed out by scholars, is very important to Dostoevsky philosophy--don't deny the earthly passions and problems in yourself, but accept them and incorporate them into your whole person. Me, I'm still working on that one. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It's not so much that the old friend is a better friend. It's just that you know the person better, and you know they don't really care if you're acting like a poor, grovelling idiot. They know you would do the same for them. Markus Zusak

My boyfriend's an idiot, " I say as soon as he lurches Lauren Oliver

One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party. Franz Kafka

A healthy argument, even with an idiot, is always good; it opens one's eyes to own misunderstandings. Ashok Kallarakkal

Which is when I decided I would never love anyone again because you just felt like an idiot when you put love out there and it didn't come back your way. Karen Tayleur

To every rule there is an exception–and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one! Vera Nazarian

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. Douglas Adams

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. Mark Twain

I've had great success being a total idiot. Jerry Lewis