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“These are the words of a fool: I am happy to be a fool, for i won't spend my time gazing at lines difficult to decipher, while my mates are drinking with glee.”
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“Any idiot or imbecile can easily make enemies; the important and the hard thing is to make friends easily and keep them as friends always!”
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“In which case, why not cancer of the brain? As a terrified, half-aware imbecile, I might even scream for a priest at the close of business, though I hereby state while I am still lucid that the entity thus humiliating itself would not in fact be “me.” (Bear this in mind, in case of any later rumors or fabrications.)”
― Mortality
― Mortality
“An elementary school student asked me the NOT “politically correct” question, “Is an idiot smarter than a moron?” I had to Google it because I was afraid to respond in today’s PC society and didn’t want to offend him, his parents, or anyone else. Here’s what I found.
Technically, a moron is smarter than an idiot. An imbecile is also smarter than an idiot.
Although today the words are considered insulting and derogatory, prior to the 1960s they were widely used as actual psychology terms associated with intelligence on an IQ test.
An IQ between:
00-25 = Idiot
26-50 = Imbecile
51-70 = Moron
Explaining all of this to a nine year old with an IQ of 130 made me feel like society has turned all adults into one of the above, myself included.
When I told him that I’m afraid to openly say it, the nine year old said, “Adults are idiots!”
― H: Infidels of Oil
Technically, a moron is smarter than an idiot. An imbecile is also smarter than an idiot.
Although today the words are considered insulting and derogatory, prior to the 1960s they were widely used as actual psychology terms associated with intelligence on an IQ test.
An IQ between:
00-25 = Idiot
26-50 = Imbecile
51-70 = Moron
Explaining all of this to a nine year old with an IQ of 130 made me feel like society has turned all adults into one of the above, myself included.
When I told him that I’m afraid to openly say it, the nine year old said, “Adults are idiots!”
― H: Infidels of Oil
“Sometimes a fool says something wise without the intention to do that, and the awareness of having done that.”
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“Wisdom gets half of its value from its being useful, and the other half from the being of at least one fool.”
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“Only children and fools expect wisdom from each and every old person.”
― F for Philosopher: A Collection of Funny Yet Profound Aphorisms
― F for Philosopher: A Collection of Funny Yet Profound Aphorisms
“Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.”
― Eugenics, the Science of Human Improvement by Better Breeding
― Eugenics, the Science of Human Improvement by Better Breeding
“An elementary school student asked me the NOT politically correct question, “Is an idiot smarter than a moron?” I had to Google it because I was afraid to respond in today’s PC society and didn’t want to offend him, his parents, or anyone else. Here’s what I found.
Technically, a moron is smarter than an idiot. An imbecile is also smarter than an idiot. Although today the words are considered insulting and derogatory, prior to the 1960s they were widely used as actual psychology terms associated with intelligence on an IQ test.
An IQ between:
00-25 = Idiot
26-50 = Imbecile
51-70 = Moron
Explaining all of this to a nine year old with an IQ of 130 made me feel like society has turned all adults into one of the above, myself included. When I told him that I’m afraid to openly say it, the nine year old said, “Adults are idiots!”
― H: Infidels of Oil
Technically, a moron is smarter than an idiot. An imbecile is also smarter than an idiot. Although today the words are considered insulting and derogatory, prior to the 1960s they were widely used as actual psychology terms associated with intelligence on an IQ test.
An IQ between:
00-25 = Idiot
26-50 = Imbecile
51-70 = Moron
Explaining all of this to a nine year old with an IQ of 130 made me feel like society has turned all adults into one of the above, myself included. When I told him that I’m afraid to openly say it, the nine year old said, “Adults are idiots!”
― H: Infidels of Oil
“His father was an epileptic, and his sister was an imbecile.”
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
“It’s foolish to buy something that’s overpriced; more foolish, if it’s unnecessary; and even more foolish, to buy it on credit.”
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