Stupidity Quotes
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Examples of human stupidity. Blasphemy in Pakistan can now include spelling errors by children or throwing away a card bearing the name "Muhammad".
William C. Brown -
What's life without a spice of stupidity.
Nancy Springer
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Stupidity isn't the only thing humans carry inside of them. I'll show you that we also have the power to purify.
Yellow Tanabe -
This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.
William Shakespeare -
The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
Leon Trotsky -
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
Adolf Hitler -
A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths.
Will Durant
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...I saw it clearly. The tragedy of our time is to have lost the ability to feel loss, the inability of power to rise to its responsibility for human decency....I was thinking that if what distinguishes us as humans is our stupidity, what may redeem us is our grace'.
Earl Lovelace -
The country will some day pay for the stupidities of those who were in the majority on this commission. They know as much about the future of aviation as they do about the sign writing of the Aztecs.
Jimmy Doolittle -
It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.
E. A. Bucchianeri -
Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
Heraclitus -
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.
Bernard Barton -
[I am fascinated by stupidity] because normal intelligence is boring. Two plus two makes four - finished. You have no possibilities! Stupidity is infinite. Two plus two can make billions of different numbers.
Umberto Eco
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Having a diverse sense of taste - or lack of taste - I loved so many different things. I was drawn to the stupidity and excitement of glam, I had a thorough upbringing in rhythm and blues.
Paul Westerberg The Replacements -
I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.
Yanni -
I can't remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.
John Lennon The Beatles -
Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it.
Adolf Hitler -
Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.
William Shakespeare
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Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.
Ethan Bennett Farnum -
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 -
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
William Faulkner -
I think the fear of being seen as childish or crazy severely limits our enjoyment of the world around us, thus inducing a state of boredom that in turn gives rise to much of the stupidity and meanness that oftem seem to epitomize the human condtion. In fact, these ills merely signify that the dues we pay for adult respectability are far too high, and bring some 'benefits' of questionable value.
D. Patrick Miller