Intellectual Laziness Quotes

#1. Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. Political cynicism, disengagement, democratic decadence - call it what you will - is too often an excuse for physical and intellectual laziness.

Matthew Flinders

#3. From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. Faith is intellectual laziness.

Robert A. Heinlein

#5. Waiting patiently for the fatest bone is a dog's lifestyle.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#6. The Houselands. Graveyard to the ones
who got locked out. A chill ran up London's spine. What the hell
were they doing?

Anna Silver

#7. So many people I talk to who work in technology, you ask them, 'What got you interested in science?' and those from my generation say, 'The Apollo landings.'

Ellen Stofan

#8. We have a great deal to learn from Scandinavia and a great deal to be alarmed at from the Mediterranean.

Gore Vidal

#9. When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery.

C.S. Lewis

#10. The Naughty List - People who skim or outright skip acknowledgments pages. Please contact the management for your free, all-expenses-paid pass to Christmasland.

Joe Hill

#11. It's scary to not know when your next job is coming, and that is a daily fear when you are trying to act full-time.

Allison Tolman

#12. The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

Freya Stark

#13. Everything seems urgent until I sit down to write. Suddenly nothing else matters. It's only when I stop, that it's a problem that I'm not dressed, there is no dinner and the house looks like it's been burgled.

K.T. Bowes

#14. I wish I could," laughed the vampire. "How positively delightful. I should like to pass through all manner of different keyholes and feel the tickle of their peculiar shapes. No." He shook his head. "That is, how would you say today ... bullshit?

Anne Rice

#15. Patriotism is racism for the modern era.

Michelle Templet

#16. It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.

Dodie Smith

#17. If you want to get serious about influencing the hearts of this generation, you have to think about creating an actual, visible, consistent place where they know they belong.

Reggie Joiner

#18. Sonia Sotomayor is uniquely and exquisitely sensitive to race issues because she is a Latina.

Dahlia Lithwick

#19. Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever.

Aristotle.

#20. My father used to think the word 'legend' was tossed around far too often. I want to say today that in the opinion of his family, my father was a legend.

James Packer