“A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.”
Source: Dragon Blood
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“Oh! I'm stupid as well as insane.”
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Source: In the Hand of the Goddess
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Source: Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science (1938), p. 146
Context: Fashion as king is sometimes a very stupid ruler. As was observed a little way back, the kernel of Plücker's theory of geometric dimensionality is that the dimensionality of a given space is not an absolute constant, but depends upon the elements, accepted as irreducible, in terms of which the space is described.
Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) sculptor from France
Quote of Dubuffet on 'Art brut', in 'Art Brut Preferred to the Cultural Arts' (1949); (trans. Joachim Neugroschel), in Mildred Glimcher, Jean Dubuffet: Towards an Alternative Reality, New York: Abbeville Press, 1987, p. 104
1940's
“The problem here is not so much a historical one, more a terminological and philosophical one.”
James Barr (1924–2006) British bible scholar
The Variable Spellings of the Hebrew Bible, p. 92
L. Neil Smith (1946) American writer
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Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer
Source: Dragon Bones
“There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.”
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) Indian lawyer, statesman, and writer, first Prime Minister of India
“For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?”
Quid enim foedius auaritia, quid immanius libidine, quid contemptius timiditate, quid abiectius tarditate et stultitia dici potest?
Marcus Tullius Cicero book De Legibus
Book I, section 51; (Translation by C.D. Yonge) http://books.google.com/books?id=AdAIAAAAQAAJ&q=%22For+what+is+there+more+hideous+than+avarice+more+brutal+than+lust+more+contemptible+than+cowardice+more+base+than+stupidity+and%22&pg=PA420#v=onepage <br class="br">De Legibus (On the Laws)