“Receptivity is the first requisite of the disciple, and of anyone who wants to learn anything. We can be anything else we like: we can be wicked, we can be stupid, we can be full of faults, we can backslide. In a sense, it doesn’t matter. But we must be spiritually receptive; we have to be willing and ready to learn. When we know that we do not know, everything is possible.” KnowsWantFirstsMatterStupidWillingReadyFaultsWickedDiscipleReceptiveReceptivity Author:Sangharakshita
“If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.” PeopleIfsShouldMindStupidWickedMisfortunesBeing Stupid Book:Letters of George Sand Source: Letters of George Sand
“But I remember the morning after The Mask of Virtue-which is the first play I did at the West End-that some critics saw fit to be as foolish as to say that I was a great actress. And I thought, that was a foolish, wicked thing to say, because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry. And it took me years to learn enough to live up to what they said-for those first notices. I find it so stupid. I remember the critic very well, and have never forgiven him.” YearsFirstsWellsSaidEndsEnoughPlayAbleRememberResponsibilityMorningVirtueSawsStupidFitWestCriticsActressesFoolishWickedMaskForgivenThey SaidNever ForgiveMorning AfterWest EndWicked Things Author:Vivien Leigh
“Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.” StupidCriticismRationalWicked Author:Mario Bunge
“Many people like to think that their moral or political enemies are not just wicked or wrong - as if that were not enough - but stupid or idiotic too. We tend to find this attitude too in the contemporary religion debate. It might console those on each side of the debate to think of their opponents in these terms, but if we want to make real progress in understanding what is going on here, this approach cannot help.” PeopleThinkingRealEnoughHelpingPoliticalUnderstandingTermAttitudeMoralEnemyProgressStupidDebateWickedIdiotic Author:Tim Crane
“..this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this place. There's other people all around you, but they don't understand you and you don't understand them, but people do a lot of pointless babbling anyway. In order to stay alive, you have to spend all day every day doing stupid meaningless work. And the only way to get out of it is to quit, cut loose, take a flyer, and go off into the wicked world, where you will be swallowed up and never heard from again.” PeopleWorldWayOrderCuttingAliveHeardStupidPercentQuittingWickedMeaninglessPointlessStaying AliveBabblingFlyersWicked World Author:Neal Stephenson