"It is of first-rate importance to notice from the start that stupidity is not the same thing, or the same sort of thing, as ignorance. There is no incompatibility between being well-informed and being silly, and a person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts."

-- Gilbert Ryle

#Silly Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Stupidity Quotes

“A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.”
“I'm always using a towel around my head. Airports don't worry about me.”
“This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.”
“You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.”
“I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, thats the reason I live here.”
“We were all Romans once, I guess.”
“One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very nature, an antithesis. A thesis is only ever put forward in opposition to another thesis, or in defence of a new one.”

Source : Louis Althusser, François Matheron, Olivier Corpet (2006). “Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-87”, p.268, Verso
“I remembered getting the script for the auditions [of Aladdin], I had asked someone there if improvs were allowed, and he said everyone is sticking to the script. I said to myself that they are either going to love me or hate me. I was crossing out lines and throwing in my own lines. I went into the room and started doing things. They were like, "This boy is nuts! We should keep him." That's how it all came about.”

Source : Source: www.blackfilm.com

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