Stupidity Quotes
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Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist. Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.
Arthur Rimbaud -
Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Edgar Allan Poe -
I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.
Tavi Gevinson -
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
Walter Kirn -
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison -
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
Fernando Pessoa
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There's no defense against stupidity.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the inappreciation of the public. These are all a part of the great game of life. To meet them and overcome them and not to go down before them in disgust, discouragement or defeat-that is the final proof of power.
William J. H. Boetcker -
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts.
Adam Mansbach -
Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.
Albert Einstein -
My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.
William Hazlitt -
Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.
William Hazlitt -
I think, as you get older, you reflect at the silliness of your youth and the stupidity of some of the decisions that were made, and the ego and whatnot, or whatever played into it.
Steve Lukather Toto -
Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.
Avital Ronell -
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell
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There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It's not a question of stupidity. It's that they don't want to enforce the immigration laws. That there are far too many in the Washington cartel that support amnesty.
Ted Cruz -
Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.
Oliver Goldsmith -
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
Scott Adams -
Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.
William of Occam