We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

Civilization is what makes you sick.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism.

Art is a mad search for individualism.

Absinthe is the only decent drink that suits an artist.

The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.

The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.