#imbeciles

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#care #children #god #imbeciles #little

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#heroism #imbeciles #lack #lost #maintain

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#because #call #essence #exterior #idea

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me. ↗

— Rosa Bonheur

#imbeciles #me #never

The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

#either #i #imbeciles #know #only

Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles. ↗

— Camillo di Cavour

#tax #upon

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#i #imbeciles #prefer #rest #rogues

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#critical #dark #genius #imbecile #imbeciles

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#beasts #because #cannot #capitalists #criminals

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

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