Thomas Carlyle Quotes

I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.

Thomas Carlyle

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• The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Stupid
  • Jews
  • Homosexuality

• If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Country
  • Political
  • Support

• They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Military
  • Stupid
  • Intelligent

• I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Time
  • Job
  • Stupid

• I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Live
  • Small

• If I can make a dollar, I certainly am not stupid.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Stupid
  • I Can
  • Dollar

• I'd be stupid not to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ because it was tough out there and I was nervous, and I felt his presence all day.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Day
  • Jesus
  • Stupid

• It's stupid to say that there's any comfort to be had in 'knowing your place,' but there is a sense of reassuring escapism to something like 'Downton Abbey.' There's a perceived romance and elegance that is wonderful to lose yourself in.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Stupid
  • Yourself
  • Lose

• Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Stupid
  • Motives

• The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Rest
  • Wonder
  • Stupid

• God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • God
  • Free
  • Environment

• I think most people's view is that selfies are just vanity and stupid, but I think they're really great.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • People
  • Great
  • Stupid

• The hardest thing in the world, I now know, is to hold in your head that it is okay to think that you are right, but not to think so necessarily because everyone who disagrees with you is wrong or stupid or duped or bad.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • World
  • Bad
  • Think

• 'What kind of stupid tale is that, when we just have to look at each other to know it isn’t true?''It has problems, I admit.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • True
  • Stupid

• When you’re young, hungry and stupid you’ll do whatever it takes.

  

  Kai Ryssdal
  • Stupid

• The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time they will be found to improve, and not to be much inferior in eloquence, science, and dignity, to the British Commons. They are patriotic enough, and I believe there are more stupid (as well as more shining) people in the latter, in proportion.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Stupid
  • Clever

• If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Bad
  • Help
  • Stupid

• It makes you also realize, 'OK, I'm excited to play tennis, and I work really hard to be the best tennis player I think I can be,' but I don't waste my time on stupid stuff, you know what I mean.

  

  Kim Clijsters
  • Time
  • Work
  • Player

• I truly believe that if you think something's stupid, that might mean it's actually good.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind narrator undertakes a quest that is unmistakably timely. But in its yearning for awareness and connection, this book feels timeless.

  

  K. M. Soehnlein
  • Book
  • Connection
  • Connections

• People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Free
  • Philosophy

• I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Stupid
  • Clever Man