Rob Thurman Quotes

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?

In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

I will always make mistakes. I am a human being.

A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.

Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

I'm no superman.

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.

Stupidity is much the same all the world over.

Human stupidity is international.

There are two things that are infinite: The universe and human folly. And sometimes I am not sure about the universe.

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition.

Stupidity cannot be controlled, only contained.

Unfortunately I am a human being and not a robot.

I'm only human.

There is no patch for stupidity.

Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease