Stupidity Quotes

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.

Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.

The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.

Stupidity is a blockage in the ability to receive, integrate and transmit new signals.

I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.

I believe that this country's policies should be heavily biased in favor of nondiscrimination.

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.

Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul Wherein the Beast ravens in its own avidity?

Nobody likes to offer stupidity as an excuse.

Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.

The lottery is a tax on ignorance, and all the losers that play the game are paying the price for their stupidity.

Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.

Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.

Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really....

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity.

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.

It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.

Examples of human stupidity. Blasphemy in Pakistan can now include spelling errors by children or throwing away a card bearing the name "Muhammad".

One of the main purpose of art has ever been that of making its indispensable contribution to the growth of entropy of the universal stupidity.

A small deer came into my camp and stole my bag of pickles. Is there a way I can get reimbursed? Please call.

Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even than the profession of novelist.

Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.

Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.

If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.

You can't legislate stupidity.

If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create!

Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.

There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

Cultural stupidity accounts for virtually every aspect of Sarah Palin, both as a person and a political icon. Which, come to think of it, may be a pretty good reason not to misunderstimate her.

Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.

Not stupid. Overly trusting, maybe, but that reflects on his lack of trustworthiness, not on your intelligence.

Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.

I am a scholar of stupidity, so thanks for existing.

I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture.

There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

For people who like peace and quiet: a phoneless cord.