Dull Minds Quotes

The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.

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

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

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

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.