Brilliantly Dumb Quotes

#1. It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

Anthony Storr

#2. Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Plato

#3. Where love comes from our righteous passions flow. Where good comes from righteous men go.
What dwells in your heart is who you are. Whatever you are passionate about is who you become.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. As far as I can tell, common sense hasn't been in fashion for a long time.

Anita Diamant

#5. You and your ship will immediately familiarize yourselves with the guidelines for dealing with citizen civilians. And you will follow them.

Ann Leckie

#6. Every great achiever knows the power of motivation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. The fact that someone didn't experience the war itself doesn't mean that he doesn't perceive its consequences.

Guido Westerwelle

#8. There is no worse preparation for adulthood than having been a child.

Benjamin Kunkel

#9. Yes, babies in the womb are human beings, but so what?

MaryElizabeth Williams

#10. The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.

David Hume

#11. Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

Susan Sontag

#12. Here, the name of the game was opulence. The floors were cherrywood, the tablecloths silk, and the guests sparkling with enough diamonds to send a Christmas tree into an epileptic seizure.

Ella Summers