Simple-mindedness Quotes

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

Acting has always been very boring to me. Anyone not in television to become a millionaire is a simpleton.

A definite factor in getting a lie believed is the size of the lie. The broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts, more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

Christians are like a thirteen year old kid who still believes in Santa.

I'm not educated; I'd be a damn fool if I was (educated)!

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a great hypocrite and dissembler. For men are so simple, and yield so much to immediate necessity, that the deceiver will never lack dupes.

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.

Sometimes you get what you want not because it's right or fair or even smart, but because you just don't know any better.

As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.

Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.

They always try to play with our minds. But that won't work with our club. We've got 20 guys without brains.

I guess I am politically very naive.

. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.

Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was not pretty, she was not clever, she had no friends, no talents, nor even an imagination to make her think she was happy when she was really miserable. As she was never miserable, she had no need of an imagination.

I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.

He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.