“There’s a fine line between bravery and stupidity, which should never be crossed.” — Lewis Pugh, “FAQ’s,” lewispugh.com
Tag: stupidity
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“Like tragedy, comedy warns against the dangers of pride, but its emphasis shifts from crime to stupidity.” — Kenneth Burke, Attitudes Toward History
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“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.” — Margaret Atwood, Surfacing
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“My determination to make my own way in the world must not make me stupid.” — Carol Berg, An Illusion of Thieves
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“In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.” — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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“Stupidity is a form of behavior. It is not something we have; it is something we do.” — Neil Postman, The Educationist as Painkiller
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“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.” — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
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“Everyone practices stupidity, including those who write about it; none of us is ever free of it, and we are most seriously endangered when we think we are safe.” — Neil Postman, The Educationist as Painkiller
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“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.” — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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“The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.” — C. S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew
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