Stupid Quotes (6)
As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect us from others that are more serious.
'Le Côté de Guermantes', À la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27).
I think modern science should graft functional wings on a pig, simply so no one can ever use that stupid saying again.
In K. D. Sullivan, A Cure for the Common Word (2007), 134.
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
The Double Helix (1998), 14.
Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know one thing to excess; they know nothing else. Pursuing facts too doggedly and unimaginatively, they miss all the charming things that are not facts. ... Too much learning, like too little learning, is an unpleasant and dangerous thing.
A Second Mencken Chrestomathy: A New Selection from the Writings of America's Legendary Editor, Critic, and Wit (2006), 157.
See also: | Dangerous (8) | Distinction (2) | Dull (4) | Fact (139) | Imagination (50) | Knowledge (330) | Learning (43) | Pursuit (7) | Scientist (71)
The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.
In The Foundation Trilogy (1951), Vol. 2, 96.
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
In Charles Simmons, A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker (1852), 273.
See also: | Brute (3) | Experience (57) | Instinct (13) | Instruction (7) | Mind (116) | Necessity (16) | Ordinary (4) | Reason (69) | Wise (3)
