Stupidity Quotes

Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.

Beware of seriousness: it is a form of stupidity

trouble is not a sign of inadequacy, stupidity or inferiority, but rather an inescapable part of life - proof that you are a card-carrying member of the human race.

Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.

Stupidity is not another form of knowledge.

Your stupidity is appalling!" "Most stupidity is!

Of all creatures on earth, we humans have the highest level of stupidity.

Sign at a New England church: Will the last person to leave please see that the perpetual light is extinguished?

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

Chair lifts need to be in some places so that we can get to wonderful views without having to hike to them.

When I said 'we', officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat.

Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced.

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

I really believe in completely being naive and having high hopes when meeting someone new. I can kind of re-do my stupidity or my naivete.

She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.

A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

..people (in Minnesota) avoid stupidity when possible, not wanting to be a $10 haircut on a 50 cent head.

Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.

Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in.

It's not how good you can play when you play good. It's how good you play when you play bad and we can play as bad as anyone in the country.

Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.

You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity.

You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.

Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.

Bravery and Stupidity can often be mistaken for the other.

I think writers are excited by stupidity and bad behavior, generally.

I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.

The only sin is stupidity.

Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.

There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [....] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance and only one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why doesn't the plane just become a boat?

And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it's not going to go up, don't buy it!

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.