Stupidity Quotes
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Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.
Stanley Baldwin
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Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.
Bill Mollison
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We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves.
George Eliot
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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.
Freya Stark
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Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
Adolf Hitler
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Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine who are actually the ten stupidest members of the Legislature. Two years ago, there were thirty-seven official nominees and several write-ins.
Molly Ivins
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
Sophocles
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The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
William Shakespeare
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Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.
Ernest Hemingway
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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.
Fritz Perls
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It's a law, a law of the universe. Like gravity or stupidity or how a minor chord always sounds sad.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?
Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
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Only ignorance excuses stupidity
Nalini Singh
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Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.
Louis Bonaparte
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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.
Garry Winogrand
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The world has made everything else and still it can't make peace. And the reason it can't make peace is because of the evil, ignorance and stupidity. I have songs that explain these facts. And that's the blues.
Willie Dixon
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There are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to achieve.
J. Budziszewski
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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
Heraclitus
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There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.
Tom Stoppard
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Hey, does my stupidity give you the right to bruise a tender heart?" "Yeah, yeah. I'm bruising a heart made of Play-Doh.
Elizabeth Chandler
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It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.
C. S. Lewis
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No one is born with hate in their heart. Hate is something that has been taught. It is not an innate survival skill that we need; It is a form of stupidity that penetrates our minds and will eventually destroy us.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
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...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.
Marcel Proust
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Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.
P. J. O'Rourke