Stupidity Quotes
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Palm Strike's main superpower is the stupidity of his enemies.
Charlie Jane Anders
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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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If the Church is 'in Christ,' she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as well as her words will convince the unbelievers and put their ignorance and stupidity to silence.
David Bosch
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Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.
Ethan Bennett Farnum
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Lord, what fools these mortals be!
William Shakespeare
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Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.
Bruce Sterling
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And writers say, as the most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, Even so by love the young and tender wit Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud, Losing his verdure even in the prime, And all the fair effects of future hopes.
William Shakespeare
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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
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I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.
Ernest Hemingway
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Beware of seriousness: it is a form of stupidity.
Alexander Waugh
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Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.
William Shakespeare
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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
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All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another.
William S. Burroughs
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My colleagues, they study artificial intelligence; me, I study natural stupidity.
Amos Tversky
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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
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Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
William Faulkner
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The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
Leon Trotsky
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I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.
Bernard Barton
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It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.
Franz Kafka
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You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.
Nevil Shute
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Stupidity is without anxiety.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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