Dull Minds Quotes

• The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy of Jew is not Arab, the enemy of youth is not the old, the enemy of hip is not redneck, the enemy of Chicano is not gringo and the enemy of women is not men. We all have the same enemy. The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind. The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.

  Tom Robbins

  Redneck, Men, White

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• This is Red Barber speaking. Let me say hello to you all.

  Red Barber

  Red Lipstick, Hello, Barbers

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• Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

  John Forbes Nash

  Creativity, Class, Mind

  "Fictional character: John Forbes Nash". "A Beautiful Mind", 2001.

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• When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.

  Red Barber

  Baseball, Player, Iron

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• Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.

  Red Barber

  Umpires, Matter, Situation

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• The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Life, Travel, Mean

  Charles Horton Cooley, Hans-Joachim Schubert (1998). “On Self and Social Organization”, p.95, University of Chicago Press

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• Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.

  Red Smith

  Baseball, Games, Mind

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• Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mind, Dull, Mathematical

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

  Red Barber

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.

  Raymond Chandler

  Mind, Vitality, Dull

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Simple Art of Murder”, p.16, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Beauty, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Humility, Perfection, Dull

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.

  Red Barber

  Talking, Imagine, Praise

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• You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.

  Red Barber

  Games, Dull, Be Prepared

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• The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens -- but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.

  Tom Robbins

  Laughter, Reality, Thinking

  "Gracie goes to schooner school" by Tom Robbins, www.seattlepi.com. May 24, 2007.

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• It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

  Epictetus

  Drinking, Food, Exercise

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• The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

  George Eliot

  Mind, Desire, Arriving

  George Eliot (1875). “Silas Marner ; And, Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.24

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• The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.

  Tom Robbins

  Mind, Enemy, Dull

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