Best Quotes About Stupidity (Top 84)
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There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe
Albert Einstein
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell
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There is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar Wilde
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
Fernando Pessoa
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There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
Frank Zappa
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Bertrand Russell
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It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.
Franz Kafka
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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Will Rogers
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Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
Albert Einstein
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Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Confucius
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
Voltaire
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It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful.
Anton LaVey
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
Hippolyte Taine
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There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
Thomas Mann
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard Shaw
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Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.
Werner Herzog
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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
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I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot touch the body of Life. Life is marvellous. I want to be deeply rooted in it - to live - to expand - to breathe in it - to rejoice - to share it. To give and to be asked for Love.
Katherine Mansfield
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
Anatole France
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There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.
Hippolyte Taine
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Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.
Saul Bellow
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert
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Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
Adolf Hitler
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If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
Will Rogers
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Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.
Friedrich von Schiller
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In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
Konrad Adenauer
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War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
Alexander Berkman
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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Frank Leahy
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We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
Paul Gauguin
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Michel de Montaigne
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The real axis of evil in America is the genius of our marketing and the gullibility of our people.
Bill Maher
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Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Chanakya
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To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.
Bill Maher
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell
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In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.
Charles Krauthammer
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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
Cato the Elder
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone
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Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
Isaac Watts
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Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.
Louise Bogan
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A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.
Bruce Catton
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But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
Erwin Rommel
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
Bodhidharma
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
Edward Abbey
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What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living than was assumed by those exploiting them. The more we are willing to see about their lives, the more we will see. Humans seem to take perverse pleasure in attributing stupidity to animals when it is almost always entirely a question of human ignorance.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
Edwin Land
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You're dumber than you think I think you are.
Robert Towne
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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
William Congreve
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
Truman Capote
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Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing
Abraham Maslow
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Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.
Karl Albrecht
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Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.
Frank Zappa
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There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
Gene Wolfe
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Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.
Bernard Barton
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Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".
Leonard Woolf
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
Gustave Flaubert
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Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
Remy de Gourmont
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With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.
Charles Churchill
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The future will be better tomorrow.
Dan Quayle
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Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.
Erwin Knoll
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
Albert Camus
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein
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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde
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You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
Scott Adams
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When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.
Dejan Stojanovic
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander Pope
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.
Joseph Addison
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Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity.
Bill Cosby
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There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
Charles Caleb Colton
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There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
Alistair Cooke