“One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.” PeopleWorldBelieveMadeMistakeStupidIntelligentRefuseStupidityGreat Mistakes Author:Claudine Guerin de Tencin
“I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.” ThinkingMadeHandsSufferingBornWifeInvolvedLessonsQuietStupidityDeterminedMy WifeResistanceAshamedNonviolenceSubmission Book:The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.” MadeEnoughSeemsFormLyingLostLeftLinesForeverImagineBasesFundamentalsFishesConservativeStupidityMortalsFishingWetDoomedTormentLeft OutHades Author:Thomas A. Edison