Witlessness Quotes

#1. Madness is witlessness's.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. On these occasions I read quickly, voraciously, almost skimming, trying to get as much into my head as possible before the next long starvation. If it were eating it would be gluttony of the famished; if it were sex it would be a swift furtive stand-up in an alley somewhere.

Margaret Atwood

#3. A thinking partner who isn't an echo chamber ... How many of us dare to have such collaborators?

Margaret Heffernan

#4. This fantasy about the disposability of black life is a constant in American history.

Teju Cole

#5. It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away.

Michael Arlen

#6. I don't believe that there is any true friendship without a bond of honor, and the honor in friendship is the respect you give the other that she also gives you.

Dorothy Allison

#7. Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

Conor Oberst

#8. Shagga son of Dolf likes this not. Shagga will go with the boyman, and if the boyman lies, Shagga will chop off his manhood-"
"-and feed it to the goats, yes," Tyrion said wearily.

George R R Martin

#9. The role of the problem-posing educator is to create, together with the students, the conditions under which knowledge at the level of the doxa is superseded by true knowledge, at the level of the logos.

Paulo Freire

#10. The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

#11. It's okay to be envious - but only of the person you aspire to become.

Rolf Dobelli

#12. It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.

Walter Chrysler