Unintelligence Quotes

“Just as there is a moment when the artist must stop, when the sculpture must be left as it is, the painting untouched - just as a determination not to know serves the maker more than all the resources of clairvoyance - so there must be a minimum of ignorance in order to perfect a life in happiness. Those who lack such a thing must set about acquiring it: unintelligence must be earned.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

“The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships—a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... [In Great Britain, the situation is similar.] ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.”
― Abraham Flexner, Universities

“The human population would still be less than a million if intellectual maturity were a prerequisite for human fertility.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The vast majority of people are ignorant of the fact that intellectual maturity is a rarity.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Ignorant, unintelligent people are a vexation of the spirit. Avoid them at all costs. Peace and fulfilment replace their absence.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman