“It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.” KnowsInspirationalChildrenParentExistenceTeacherWorstStupidLonelyDisabilityDisappoint Author:Susan Hampshire
“I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea. The dangers of it only make present to us the peril inherent in all existence, which the stupid, ignorant, un-travelled land-worm never discovers; and the art of it, so mathematical, so exact, so rewarding to intelligence, appeals to courage and clears the mind of superstition, while filling it with humility and true religion.” MindArtMovingHumanityWaterExistenceSeaLandStupidDangerHumilitySolitudeDefinitionsIgnorantShipsMathematicalAppealsSuperstitionsInherentSublimeWormsFillingPerilTrue ReligionMoving Water Author:George Santayana
“I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded. It was long after that I learned that a vast majority of all benevolent institutions are gotten up to gratify the aesthetic tastes of the public; exhibit the wealth and generosity of the founders, and furnish places for officers. The beneficiaries of the institutions are simply an apology for their existence, and having furnished that apology, the less said about them the better.” LongSaidCareWealthExistenceGoneStupidObjectsComfortTasteSickInstitutionsMajorityNotionPrimariesGenerosityHospitalsOfficersAestheticApologyFoundersWoundedPhilanthropyExhibitsBenevolentBeneficiaries Author:Jane Swisshelm
“Man is the only animal for whom his own stupid existence is a problem which he has to try in vain to solve.” MenTryingProblemAnimalExistenceStupidSolveVain Author:William C. Brown