Stupidity Quotes

Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.

If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.

artificial intellegance is no match for natural stupidity

what's life without a spice of stupidity

Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout.

Why is the competition always so intense to set new records for maximum stupidity?

One can overlook stupidity, until it evolves into malice.

The best way to fight stupidity, is by ignoring it.

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.

Hot oil! We need hot oil!... Forget the water balloons!

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

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

You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.

It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.

Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.

Stupidity well packaged can sound like wisdom.

He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

Those who realise their folly are not true fools.

There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.

Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.

The world is laughing at us. They're laughing at the stupidity of our President [Barack Obama]. Remember he drew the line in the sand - the line is in the sand.

Hillary Clinton lies a lot. She has bad judgment. She created ISIS with her stupidity.

Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.

He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.

The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate like an electrocuted criminal.

You can't argue with stupidity.

It's wonderful to find cultures that are historically still intact, as opposed to a lot of Western cultures which seem to me to be slowly dying, stuck in celebrity illness or stupidity.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.