Stupidity Quotes
-
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.
-
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
-
To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans, Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights; If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain; If lost, why then a grievous labour won; However, but a folly bought with wit, Or else a wit by folly vanquished.
-
Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that we are hurting by our stupidity and ignorance of poetry.
-
Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.
-
The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people who feel certain about things they never try to find out. A world that educates people to be ignorant - that is what this world of ours is.
-
Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.
-
The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.
-
Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.
-
Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
-
The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
-
The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.
-
It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?
-
Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
-
As Albert Einstein once said to me: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity." But what is much more widespread than the actual stupidity is the playing stupid, turning off your ear, not listening, not seeing.
-
More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity.
-
Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.
-
Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.
-
I knew that was coming. That's another stupidity. The people who use the term don't even know the meaning. They use it to refer to photographs they believe are loosely organized, or casually made, whatever you want to call it. Whatever terms you like. The fact is, when they're talking about snapshots they're talking about the family album picture, which is one of the most precisely made photographs.
-
It's a law, a law of the universe. Like gravity or stupidity or how a minor chord always sounds sad.
-
There are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to achieve.
-
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.
-
I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in.
-
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".
