Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It’s hard to see how it pulls in fans.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Britney Spears was an incredible dancer. That kid was amazing.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

I am not a televangelist.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

There’s been people who’ve rapped and produced – like Kanye – but I don’t feel like on the rapping side there’s ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.

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

Here’s something that’s contrary to popular belief: I actually don’t like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don’t. I do not like to think at all.

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

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.