Stupidity Quotes

It's usually easier to rouse stupidity to action than to arouse wisdom to effort, for wisdom sees alternatives while stupidity lacks the imagination to do this. All sinister interests in a country can depend ultimately upon the strength of stupidity.

Chapman Cohen
- Country
- Wisdom
- Interests
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Napoleon Bonaparte
- Stupidity
- Malice
- Ascribe

Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the inexhaustible, stupidity is also that which fatigues knowledge and wears down history.

Avital Ronell
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Stephen Vizinczey
I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.

Ben Lerner
Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.

George Eliot
- Culture
- Jokes
- Educated
Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.

Raymond E. Feist
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
- Church
- Wise
- Smart