Dee Hock Quotes

In order not to end up like the masses out there who are merely wandering and unsure of their goals and dreams, your objective must be clear. When your purpose is clear, your life will have meaning.

I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.

I think that men has the most highly developed intelligence. I think men get so intelligent that they're stupid.

Nothing wrong with appearing to be a fool, if what you are doing is intelligent.

Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results.

The philosopher ... subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment namely, that freedom from toil is preferable to toil, and an intelligent life is preferable to a stupid life. It so happened that philosophy was born with these values. Scientific thought had to break this union of value judgment and analysis, for it became increasingly clear that the philosophic values did not guide the organisation of society.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.

When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time.

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

The value of making young people stupid, subject to an educational deficit has enormous currency in a society in which existing relations of power are normalized. Under such conditions, those who hold power accountable are reviewed as treasonous while critically engaged young people are denounced as un-American.

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

When it comes to social interaction, the chimpanzees appear to be just as intelligent as we are.

Clarity is essential. Knowing exactly what you want builds your self-confidence immeasurably.

All, the intelligent and stupid, diligent and idle, have been swept along on a current of increased output that, in the usual case, owed nothing whatever to their efforts.

An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.

There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or slightly underestimate themselves, but stupid people overestimate their intelligence and by huge margins. (And these were things like straight up math tests, not controversial IQ tests.)

Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself into anything, that only a fool can make anything he wants out of himself.

The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.

Leftovers make you feel good twice. First, when you put it away, you feel thrifty and intelligent: 'I'm saving food!' Then a month later when blue hair is growing out of the ham, and you throw it away, you feel really intelligent: 'I'm saving my life!'

The rock concert experience for people was really pretty stupid, you know, at the time. People would go to concerts not with the idea of listening at all.

An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.