“It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity” LongWould BePayEffectsEasierDebtStupidityRangeNational Debt Book:Real Frank Zappa Book Source: Real Frank Zappa Book
“As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.” HumansLongConditionsDemocratGreedStupidityHuman ConditionCowardice Author:Jack Kelly
“Symons remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms - what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true calling.” ShouldLongIdeasLawCoursesHouseCommonEventsOughtCallingDegreesNormalIllusionErrorsNotionStupidityFinishedFirmRisenResidualLaw Firms Author:Alain de Botton
“Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.” LongEndsStupidityFolly Book:Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody
“Stupidity is a factor to be reckoned with in human affairs. The true leader always expects to encounter it, and prepares to endure it patiently so long as it is normal stupidity. He knows that his ideas will be distorted, his orders carelessly executed; and that there will be jealousy among his assistants. He takes these inevitable phenomena into account, and instead of attempting to find men without faults, who are non-existent, he tries to make use of the best men at his disposal - as they are, and not as they ought to be.” KnowsMenTryingHumansLongIdeasUseOrderLeaderOughtNormalAccountsFaultsEndureAffairStupidityFactorsInevitableEncountersAttemptingFind MeAssistantsTrue Leader Author:Andre Maurois