Wiley Miller quotes

“Stupid is a condition. Ignorance is a choice.”
-- Wiley Miller

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“Welcome to the U.S. Capitol: Watch for falling expectations.”
-- Wiley Miller

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“Tomer: “What's this?” Cabinet: “Wt's ths?” Wedge: “Cabinet.” Tomer: “I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.” Cabinet: “...ts tlkng” Janson: “Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.” Tycho: “He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.” Hobbie: “Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.”

“Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.”

“Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter and more open-eyed, and show a propensity to flit and sparkle under the light of chandeliers.”

“I'm young but I'm not stupid.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”

“Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.”

“There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.”

“Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.”

“Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.”

Source : "Music To Your Ears" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2013.