Fatuity Quotes

#1. The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,
mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

Edgar Quinet

#3. To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind.

Peter Medawar

#4. If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

Tony Judt

#5. If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity.

Charles Horton Cooley

#6. Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

Honore De Balzac

#7. Success isn't the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.

Gautama Buddha

#8. We know that the airports are not protected as they should be protected. The terminals are public areas, wide open - anyone can go and walk at any terminal he wants.

Isaac Yeffet

#9. I adore you, Emilia Ward, let me worship you and I will be your dog, your slave ... anything you want. Just don't leave me.

Amanda Lance

#10. Fine," Grandpa said. "You fetch your evil Librarian mother from the jail. I'll go warm up the giant penguin!

Brandon Sanderson

#11. Learning is one addiction I don't mind admitting to. In fact, I celebrate it.

Carmine Gallo

#12. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.

Peter Thiel

#13. Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas.

Michael Steinhardt