. . . the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to find your way out of a sterile maze, ignoring the fact that if the researcher who designed the maze were to be parachuted into the jungles of Borneo, he or she would be dead of starvation in a week. . . If I as a human being were told that the standards by which animals are being measured in these experiments are human standards, I would be insulted.
As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.
Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, ‘You can't do a thing’. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has broken the spell of `you can't' once and for all.
One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles.
Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I. Q. 's if possible.
Only a f-kin imbecile would think they un-correctable, cause you're susceptible to becoming more than a spectacle.
The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.
Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?
Three generations of imbeciles are enough.
It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for practical life. This faculty is judgment, otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative, the faculty of adapting one's self to circumstances. A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment
Stupid. Stupid. Foaly, we are both imbeciles. I don't expect lateral thinking from the LEP, but from you. . . ". . . "What is it?" [Holly] asked, afraid of the answer, which must surely be terrible. "Yeah," agreed Foaly, who always had time to feel insulted. "Why am I an imbecile?
The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet; the second, an imbecile.
A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.
The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.
To believe everything is to be an imbecile. To deny everything is to be a fool.
Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.
