Jim Butcher Quotes

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

... gross, barefaced inconsistency.

I don't think he has a real concept of reality. To stand by some of the things that Donald Trump has said and for Mike Pence to say he's a devout Christian man is completely contradictory.

Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived.

Contradictions make people feel off. They'll say, "Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that possible?"

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.

You truly need to witness me goo-gooing and coo-cooing and making up goofy little songs to glean a full appreciation of how nauseating I can be. This is another instance where things seemingly don't add up - how can this vile, hateful, violent, misogynist, racist, loathsome, repugnant, worthless, reprehensible subhuman be so insanely tender and kind to little doggies and kitty-cats?

When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

I'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy.

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives do not express in the remotest way what they have understood, but rather the opposite.

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn't guarantee you intelligence of another sort.You can behave just as stupidly with a good college education.

Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.

For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.

Sometimes a fireman will go to great strenuous lengths to save a raccoon that's stuck in a drainpipe and then go out on the weekend and kill several of them for amusement.