Quotes of Mindless - somelinesforyou

“ It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat. ”

- Ernest Bevin

“ The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda. ”

- H.L. Mencken

“ Sarcasm: the last defence of the truly witless. ”

- John G. Pollard

“ An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment. ”

- Lao tzu

“ Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors. ”

- Lewis Carroll

“ We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become "unthinkable" thinking stops and action becomes mindless. ”

- William Fullbright

“ We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless. ”

- James William Fulbright

“ Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar cliches or a wild scramble for novelty. Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance. Form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form. ”

- Paul Rand

“ Soon another test would come. He must be ready for it. So he sat, but it was not mindless meditation but mindful scheming that filled him. In a contest like this, there could be no second-place winner. To be second was to be last and to be last here was to be dead. ”

- Steve Perry

“ The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night. ”

- Jean Baudrillard

“ Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it. ”

- Greg Anderson
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