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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

Fernando Pessoa

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Fernando Pessoa
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June 13, 1888 - November 30, 1935

There are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to achieve.

J. Budziszewski

We can try to gain some of the sensibility of some of the indigenous populations of the world or our predecessors 800 years ago. We can laugh at them as being naive and unsophisticated, but unless we can gain that sensibility that there has to be rights of nature as Bolivians and others put it, then we're going to be destroyed.

Noam Chomsky

The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.

Peter Ustinov

What economic libralisation needs, if it is to succeed , is a general acceptance that reforms are for the general good, that they might seem to help some more than others, but that in the long run everyone will benefit from them. Such attitude is far from being realized

Shashi Tharoor

The idea of freedom is quite in accord with a general, though vague, sentiment among us; it is an idea of fair play, of giving everyone a chance; and nothing arouses more general and active indignation among our people than the belief that some one or some class is not getting a fair chance.

Charles Horton Cooley

Nothing ever holds together unless it is mixed with some of one's own blood

John McGahern

General George Patton, General Douglas MacArthur are spinning in their grave at the stupidity of what we're doing in the Middle East.

Donald Trump

The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth looking at. Then comes a time when a multitude of contradictory objections are raised, such as: the new theory is too fancy, or merely a new terminology; it is not fruitful, or simply wrong. Finally a state is reached when everyone seems to claim that he had always followed this theory. This usually marks the last state before general acceptance.

Kurt Lewin

We can't have an intelligent foreign policy unless we have an intelligent public, because we're a democracy.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.

Algernon Sidney

You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?

Christopher Guest

Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some lost idea of philosophy's pure essence, but the idea that philosophy is mixed up with everything else.

Julian Baggini

Some fool aims to go to heaven; some clever knows that there isn't any; and some intelligent tries to create one with his own effort! Be intelligent!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

She's quite intelligent, in my stupidity.

J. D. Salinger

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will- to- action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

Arthur Gordon Webster

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

Isaac Asimov

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