“Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that; they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise.” HumorAbleFunnyQuotesSoundKnowingWiseStupidHumourSmartJokesHumorousIntelligentBrilliantFoolishSillyCleverIgnorantRationalDumbEnlightenedSatireLogicalInsightfulSensibleThickAphorismSaneSophisticatedIrrationalGiftedQuotationsJokeSageHilariousIntuitiveAphorismsPrudentKnowledgeableDenseMindlessIdioticDiscerningBrightAphoristAphoristsSlowUnintelligentTalentedAstuteLearnedVapidVacuousBrainlessDiscriminatingThoughtlessShrewdBrainyDimQuick WittedPerceptiveSharp WittedSagaciousCannyJudiciousObtusePerspicaciousDull WittedWitlessHalfwittedQuick On The UptakeBubbleheadedDopeyDozyFeeblemindedKnuckleheadedLunkheadedSapientSimpleminded Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth. We consider the time has come for that crutch to be abandoned. It is a vacuous answer... To say that 'God made the world' is simply a more or less sophisticated way of saying that we don't understand how the universe originated. A god, in so far as it is anything, is an admission of ignorance. Religion utterly failed to provide an explanation of the biosphere other than that 'God made it all'. Then Darwin thundered over the horizon and in a few decades of observation and thought . . . arrived at an answer. I regard teaching religion as purveying lies. I came here today to de-corrupt you all.” ScienceAnswersPowerAtheismLiesAtheistComprehensionDarwinBiosphereCharles DarwinVacuous Author:P.W. Atkins
“Romney and Democratic rival President Obama have led their partisan backers down a trail of lies, negativity and vacuous policies that seem certain to guarantee an angry electorate four more years of gridlock.” YearsSeemsLyingCertainPresidentFourPolicyAngryDemocraticGuaranteesPresident ObamaNegativityTrailsRivalsRomneyPartisansElectorateGridlockVacuous Author:Ron Fournier
“First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.” FirstsMeanArtPhilosophyCertainSportsStudyLife PhilosophyMartial ArtsSignificanceVacuous Author:William C. Brown
“Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.” FirstsSometimesFirst TimeIntentionBoringShockShockingVacuous Author:Roger Scruton
“It's one thing for a person to live his life as a vacuous shell without fully comprehending the extent of his transgressions, but I was guilty of the greater sin; I knew what was right, and I chose to reject it.” PersonsSinGreaterOne ThingGuiltyRejectsShellsTransgressionComprehendingVacuous Author:Tarek Saab
“Like Karl Kraus [Wittgenstein], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby mostly offended his ear - particularly when they happened to speak philosophically; and like Karl Kraus, he suspected that the institutions could not but be corrupt if the idiom of the race was confused, presumptuous, and vacuous, a fabric of nonsense, untruth, deception, and self-deception.” IfsMenSelfSpeakRaceSawsHappenedEarsInstitutionsDeceptionConfusedNonsenseFabricOffendedSelf DeceptionUntruthIdiomPresumptuousVacuousPasserby Author:Thomas Szasz
“Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom.” SelfishBoredomMaskBitternessTranquilityVacuous Author:Cyril Connolly
“One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy.” KnowsOptimismMadnessNotionConquerIdiotBeastPsychotherapyVacuous Author:Glen Duncan
“Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act.” IfsWould BeCoursesAtheismTheoryEvolutionPositive AtheismExplanationInexplicableTheory Of EvolutionVacuous Author:Steven Pinker
“Musical acts that feign enthusiasm for what they're doing the guitarist who jumps up and down, like it's choreographed are so transparently vacuous.” MusicalEnthusiasmUp And DownGuitaristVacuous Author:John Maus
“When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation.” GriefLettersGenuineSympathyConsolationVacuous Author:Lord Chesterfield
“There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.” ExistenceVirtueConversationUselessMediocrityConventionalPettyBourgeoisPhilistinesVapidVacuous Author:Anton Chekhov
“One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not sure the one who makes escapist films is making a poorer contribution than the one who makes the deeper films.” FilmIntellectualProfoundDeeperFilmmakerNot SureContributionEscapistsVacuous Author:Woody Allen
“Such a divine profession is art! When everything else looks so stale and disgustingly vacuous, so enthralls even the littlest real effort of art our innermost and carries us from town, from country, from earth, as that it must be truely a blessing of the Gods.” LooksArtRealCountryEarthEffortDivineBlessingTownsProfessionCarrieStaleVacuous Author:Felix Mendelssohn
“It sounds superficially fair. But it presupposes that that there is something in Christian theology to be ignorant about. The entire thrust of my position is that Christian theology is a non-subject. It is empty. Vacuous. Devoid of coherence or content. I imagine that McGrath would join me in expressing disbelief in fairies, astrology and Thor's hammer. How would he respond if a fairyologist, astrologer or Viking accused him of ignorance of their respective subjects?” IfsChristianSoundImagineSubjectsPositionIgnoranceFairsEmptyTheologyIgnorantFairyImagine ThatAccusedHammersAstrologyThrustDisbeliefVikingsCoherenceChristian TheologyVacuous Author:Richard Dawkins
“Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.” IfsLooksBeautifulFacesEmptyMaskArtificialVacuumsEyelashesBeautiful FaceVacuousEmpty Heads Author:Peter Ustinov
“Speaking of [Colin] Kaepernick, did you see what [Barack] Obama said about Kaepernick? I mean this was the biggest dodge I have ever seen. This may have been the most vacuous or empty statement on anything, because Obama clearly wanted to agree with Kaepernick but couldn't.” MayMeanHas BeensSaidWantedEmptyAgreeStatementsBarackDodgeVacuousKaepernick Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.” IfsWantEnoughSpaceMaterialismVacuous Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'” WritingJobsFilmVacuous Author:Damian Lewis
“The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.” WayGivingFirstsIdeasSoulDesireDangerousGiving UpHarmonySpeciesNotionVacuousDangerous Ideas Author:Cormac McCarthy
“It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered--it became vacuous and trite, meaningless to anyone else. In the end, it's only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments.” EndsMomentsWonderStrangeKissingEssentialsAffairFoolishSandMeaninglessGrainPalmsJointsTextureLove AffairTrunksGrains Of SandVacuousFledglings Author:Susan Vreeland
“In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.” CharacterCultureTvsPersonalitySensitiveIrrelevantPostmodernVacuous Author:David F. Wells
“Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.” MadeDreamNightSufferingHabitEmptySelfishWoundsReformBoredomEach DayMaskBitternessTranquilityScabsVacuous Author:Cyril Connolly
“The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is hard to miss today, but oddly enough, not easy to prove. It is hard to miss in the evangelical world--in the vacuous worship that is so prevalent, for example, in the shift form God to the self as the central focus of faith, in the psychologized preaching that follows this shift, in the erosion of its conviction, in its strident pragmatism, in its inability to think incisively about the culture, in its reveling in the irrational.” ThinkingWorldSelfHardEnoughTodayFormCultureEasyChurchLeaderFocusMissingExampleProveWorshipConvictionTheologyPreachingIrrationalInabilityEvangelicalProve ItDisappearancePragmatismErosionOrchestrationVacuous Author:David F. Wells
“Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.” HumansHuman BeingsTelevisionGossipVacuousVacuity Author:Malcolm Muggeridge
“We're at a time when we are being presented with undeniable changes in the global climate and fundamental issues that affect every single one of us, and it's the time we're listening to the most hokey shite on the radio and watching vacuous bullshit celebrities being vacuous bullshit celebrities and desperately trying to forget about everything. Which is fine, you know, but personally speaking, I can't do that.” KnowsTryingI CanForgetIssuesListeningFineFundamentalsClimateRadioBullshitVacuous Author:Thom Yorke
“Commercials are not the only junk food in the speech market - indeed, when compared to shallow news reporting, vacuous television shows, or political doublespeak, commercials are not even the most harmful to mental health.” ShowsPoliticalTelevisionSpeechNewsMental HealthShallowJunkTelevision ShowsJunk FoodVacuousNews Reporting Author:Rodney A. Smolla
“I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity or of religion in general. But atheism that consists entirely in vacuous arguments afloat on oceans of historical ignorance, made turbulent by storms of strident self-righteousness, is as contemptible as any other form of dreary fundamentalism. And it is sometimes difficult, frankly, to be perfectly generous in one’s response to the sort of invective currently fashionable among the devoutly undevout, or to the sort of historical misrepresentations it typically involves.” MadeI CanSelfSometimesFormDifficultChristianityAtheismIgnoranceOceanArgumentHistoricalResponseStormHonestlyGenerousRighteousnessFundamentalismFashionableAdmirableDrearySelf RighteousnessMisrepresentationVacuous Author:David Bentley Hart
“The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech.” BehindsLibertySpeechEternalLibertarianFree SpeechShieldsVigilanceEternal VigilanceVacuousBlather Author:Michael Shermer
“Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory is one of the contributions of the intelligentsia to enhancing their own power and the power of those they serve.” SeemsPoliticalSocialSimpleEffortIssuesTheoryContributionThriveEsotericPolitical IssuesVacuous Book:Language and Politics Source: Language and Politics
“"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that therefore uncritically seizes upon the most simplistic and abstract ways of filling its vacuous self-consciousness. Not philosophy but dogma and rhetoric, not rationality but indoctrination and conditioning, provide the cultural junkfood by which the Many perfunctorily slake their thirst and hunger.” PeopleWaySelfPhilosophyConsciousnessHungerAbstractLive ByMassivePortionsDogmaSheerRhetoricThirstRationalityFillingPatheticConditioningSelf ConsciousnessIndoctrinationImmediacySubjectionVacuousObviousness Author:Kenny Smith
“Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe - that all they're interested in is hairdos and looking at other beautiful people. Maybe they're interested in learning something.” PeopleBelieveBeautifulYoungBeautiful PeopleHairdosVacuous Author:David James Elliott
“Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite of this cannot deny the primal laws of nature, a distorted morality had to be developed, which spreads hypocritical appearances over hidden actions. This has brought to a head all those outward forms of modern life, whose vacuousness and corruption are now beginning to disgust us.” MenLifeAgeActionFormLawReligionNatureReligiousViewsModernMoralityCaughtCorruptionAppearanceDenySpreadContemporarySpiteDisgustingCaught UpLaws Of NatureHypocriteModern LifeModernityDistortionPrimalHypocriticalAsceticismHidden MeaningVacuousCorrupt Society Author:Guido von List
“Again and again parents describe...the trancelike nature of their children's television watching. The child's facial expression is transformed. The jaw is relaxed and hangs open slightly; the tongue rests on the front teeth. The eyes have a glazed, vacuous look.” LooksChildrenEyeParentFrontsTelevisionExpressionTongueTeethTransformedAgain And AgainRelaxedFacialFacial ExpressionVacuousTelevision Watching Author:Marie Winn