Carl Sagan Quotes, Stupid Quotes, Believe Quotes

People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.

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If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Stupid Quotes , Reading Quotes

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

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There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

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If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.

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Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.

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Natural gas is hemispheric; I like to call it hemispheric in nature, because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

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sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

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In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

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I'm the luckiest guy in the world in terms of what I do for a living. No one can tell me to do things I don't believe in or things I think are stupid.

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Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Stupid Quotes , Goes On Quotes

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

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I think I was unprepared for war.

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I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

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How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?

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The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

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Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.

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The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

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There are huge advertising budgets only when there's no difference between the products. If the products really were different, people would buy the one that's better. Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.

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You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

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