Bruce Nauman Quotes

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

My grandson is mad at me. He's mad at me because I squandered his college fund on Spanx. It's a lot, but there's a lot going on here.

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been deceived. Laplace saw no question from its true point of view; he sought subtleties everywhere; had only doubtful ideas, and finally carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration.

More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say

How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad.

Silence was never a wrong answer.

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.

The world supports a multi-million dollar industry of intelligence and ability research, but it devotes virtually nothing to determine why this intelligence is squandered by engaging in amazing, breathtaking acts of stupidity.

Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.

I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster.

We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.

Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.

My dad was an alcoholic and my mother...we didn't have any money and I grew up really poor. I watched them spend all of their money on cartons of cigarettes and stuff like that and I didn't understand how if we were broke and we couldn't afford Christmas presents, why could you smoke all of those cigarettes? It's not like they are making you better...they are killing you. It seemed real idiotic to me.

Who calls a shot like that? Who makes a decision like that? It's a disturbing trend.

The loss was not bad luck. It was bad analysis.

A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.

Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, never being in business, never really negotiating, give away for nothing things they shouldn't give away.

Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer.