“There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.”
Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain
Source: The Magic Mountain
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.”
Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain
Source: The Magic Mountain
Amit Ray (1960) Indian author
Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Lifestyle (2012) https://books.google.co.in/books?id=sBsG9V1oVdMC,
“This was the Great Romance. To love at any cost.”
Ted Dekker (1962) American writer
Source: Black: The Birth of Evil
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
Dylan Thomas and Hector Berlioz (1956).
Context: Genius is unquestionably a great trial, when it takes the romantic form, and genius and romance are so associated in the public mind that many people recognize no other kind. There are other forms of genius, of course, and though they create their own problems, they are not "impossible" people. But O, how deeply we should thank God for these impossible people like Berlioz and Dylan Thomas! What a weary, grey, well-ordered, polite, unendurable hell this would be without them!
Margrethe II of Denmark (1940) Queen of Denmark
Television documentary 'Queen Margrethe of Denmark', BBC & Jørgen Bonfils, 30:27, 28 April 1974.
Life Philosophy
“Poverty is the worst kind of violence.”
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Quoted without reference to earlier source, time or location in A Just Peace through Transformation: Cultural, Economic, and Political Foundations for Change (1988) by the International Peace Association
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