Stupidity Quotes
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. (Quote by - Voltaire)
I guess some of this was brought on myself, my stupidity. I don't know if it was naivety. (Quote by - Faria Alam)
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. (Quote by - Hunter S Thompson)
Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance (Quote by - William Gaddis)
It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful. (Quote by - Anton LaVey)
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think. (Quote by - Thomas Babington Macaulay)
A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's. (Quote by - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller)
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr.)
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. (Quote by - Friedrich von Schiller)
The fault rests with the gods, who have made her so stupid. (Quote by - Jean B.L. de Gresset)
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
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?" (Quote by - Thomas Babington Macaulay)
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has longer shelf life. (Quote by - Frank Zappa)
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match. (Quote by - Karl Kraus)
The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty, and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury. (Quote by - S. L. Clemens)
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. (Quote by - William E Gladstone)
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. (Quote by - Thomas Szasz)
I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull. (Quote by - William Congreve)
Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea. (Quotes by - P W Bridgman)
There are only two races on this planet-the intelligent and the stupid. (Quote by - John Fowles)
It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity (Quote by - Frank Zappa)
Stupidity is evil waiting to happen. (Quote by - Clay Bond)
Most fools think they are only ignorant. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves. (Quote by - Paul Gauguin)
The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise. (Quote by - John Dryden)
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Hatred is a passion requiring one hundred times the energy of love. Keep it for a cause, not an individual. Keep it for intolerance, injustice, stupidity. For hatred is the strength of the sensitive. Its power and its greatness depend on the selflessness of its use. (Quote by - Olive Moore)
Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organisation. (Quote by - Jon Bentley)
Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. (Quote by - Friedrich von Schiller)
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr)
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. (Quote by - Frank Dane)
Obstinacy and heat in sticking to one's opinions is the surest proof of stupidity. Is there anything so cocksure, so immovable, so disdainful, so contemplative, so solemn and serious as an ass? (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. (Quote by - Field Marshal Erwin Rommel)
The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity (Quote by - and that's just not fair. (Quote by - Konrad Adenauer)
It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change. (Quote by - Confucius)
Peter was dull; he was at first Dull;--Oh, so dull--so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed-- Still with his dulness was he cursed-- Dull--beyond all conception--dull. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. (Quote by - Edwin Land)
Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance. (Quote by - Alistair Cooke)
Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. (Quote by - Sloan Wilson)
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains. (Quote by - Maxim Gorky)
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. (Quote by - Vladimir Nabokov)
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. (Quotes by - Albert Einstein)
There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe. (Quote by - John Dryden)
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. (Quote by - Scott Adams)
We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. (Quote by - Gustav Flaubert)
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. (Quote by - Nick Diamos)
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity. (Quote by - Bernard Barton)
If a man didn't make sense, the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation, for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity. (Quote by - J. K. Galbraith)
With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity. (Quote by - Konrad Adenauer)
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. (Quote by - Euripides)
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face". (Quote by - Leonard Woolf)
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. (Quote by - Brian Pickrell)
