Stupidity Quotes
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.
I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless 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.
In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.
There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.
The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.
I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread.
No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.
There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.
The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.
Only worry about your own happiness, which doesn’t have to be limited by anyone else’s stupidity unless you allow it to be.
The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to exclaim, "Est il possible?"-"Is it possible?"
There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement of IQ.
The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.
Scientists believe that the universe is made of hydrogen because they claim it's the most plentiful ingredient. I claim that the most plentiful ingredient is stupidity.
We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.
Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.
Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.
Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.
Stupidity is a luxury and you will find time and time and time and again that those who are overwhelmingly on the left are those who can afford to be.