| "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein Ignorance and Stupid |
| More from Albert Einstein |
| When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. Albert Einstein |
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| True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. Albert Einstein |
| The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein |
| It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein |
| Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. Albert Einstein |
| The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. Albert Einstein |
| The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein |
| A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory. Albert Einstein |
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| I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored. Albert Einstein |
| Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein |
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Hanlon's Razor:
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." Anonymous Ignorance and Stupid |
| There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton Ignorance and Stupid |
| In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity. Konrad Adenauer Ignorance and Stupid |
| It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don’t think it will come back. Maya Angelou Ignorance and Stupid |
| Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy? Allan Bloom Ignorance and Stupid |
| It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion... Robertson Davies Ignorance and Stupid |
| "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein Ignorance and Stupid |
| To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness; though if stupidity is lacking, The Others are useless. Gustave Flaubert Ignorance and Stupid |
| "I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art." Kahlil Gibran Ignorance and Stupid |
| "There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action." Johann von Goethe Ignorance and Stupid |
