Stupidity Quotes
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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
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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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When I come upon anything-in Logic or in any other hard subject-that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to talk it over, aloud, even when I am all alone. One can explain things so clearly to one's self! And then, you know, one is so patient with one's self: one never gets irritated at one's own stupidity!
Lewis Carroll
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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal.
Nelson Rodrigues
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What Democrats call 'nuanced,' most people refer to as 'stupidity.'
Evan Sayet
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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
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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
John Stuart Mill
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Nowadays, hoy en día, with our world full of war and violence and lack of love, a world full of greed, a world of domination, grasping power, venal stupidity, real evil, don’t get me started, it’s good to know that a conversation about tacos will always engender a sense of comfort and happiness. If only we could sit down at a big round world table and eat tacos in a spirit of love we might begin to work on world peace!
Denise Chavez
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The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!
William Shakespeare
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Stupidity well packaged can sound like wisdom.
Burton Malkiel
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Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.
Honore de Balzac
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Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.
Vinnie Jones
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Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
Carlo M. Cipolla
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No wonder I stopped keeping a journal. It was like keeping a record of my own stupidity. Why would I want to do that? Why would I want to remind myself what an asshole I was?
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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While man can still his body keep Wine or love drug him to sleep, Waking he thanks the Lord that he Has body and its stupidity.
William Butler Yeats
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I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.
Tilda Swinton
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Then there's politics. Just imagine politics with its dumbbell element subtracted. There would be no Republican candidates. There would be no Democratic voters. The whole system would collapse.
P. J. O'Rourke
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What keeps people from living together is their stupidity, not their differences.
Anna Gavalda
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We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
William E. Gladstone
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People just relate to me. They know I'm a regular person brought up in a hardworking, poor family, that I've had all the struggles that people have. I'm just a friendly person. And I hopefully have a good sense of humor. People get a kick out of my stupidity.
Dolly Parton
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The why is plain as way to parish church: He that a fool doth very wisely hit Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not, The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool.
William Shakespeare