Best Stupidity Quotes

#1. You can't believe everything you read - or hear. Accepting things at face value without the need to question and dig deeper is ignorance at best, stupidity at worst.

Vivian Eve

#2. A best friend is the one person that doesn't leave you worse off by their actions or yours.

Shannon L. Alder

#3. Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the universe, especially among political, bureaucratic, judicial, religious, intellectual, artistic, and mass media members, so it is the best place to develop your own field research.

William C. Brown

#4. I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

George Grosz

#5. [In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

Stephen Hawking

#6. Cultural stupidity accounts for virtually every aspect of Sarah Palin, both as a person and a political icon. Which, come to think of it, may be a pretty good reason not to misunderstimate her.

Joe Bageant

#7. All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)

Norma Fox Mazer

#8. I don't want your stupidity, I can buy it and if I want it I will go and search it.

Deyth Banger

#9. Great men honour intelligence, little men honour stupidity.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.

Mindy Kaling

#11. People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

Moliere

#12. The definition of stupidity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

David Estes

#13. Understanding is the reward of obedience. Obedience is the key to every door. I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.

George MacDonald

#14. There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

Gene Wolfe

#15. With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.

Thomas Carlyle

#16. Eople (in Minnesota) avoid stupidity when possible, not wanting to be a $10 haircut on a 50 cent head.

Garrison Keillor

#17. Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Josh Billings

#18. When you are in the company of lunatics, behave like a lunatic. When you are in the company of intelligentsias, speak with brilliance ... that is how a chameleon behaves, the territory changes it, and it adapts to the changes.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#19. people's stupidity probably explains much of what people do and don't do, as I have conceded all along in this book.

Richard B. McKenzie

#20. Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of the people. Best dictatorship would be one where lots of heads would roll and government would prevent any economical growth.

Pentti Linkola

#21. The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. The next best vegetable is the jalapeno pepper. It has the virtue of turning salads into practical jokes.

P. J. O'Rourke

#22. The best way to fight stupidity, is by ignoring it.

Kelly Kelly

#23. The best humor is offered up by the stupidity of your opponents.

Barney Frank

#24. If they think they can stop me, I defy them to bring the best they have and I shall roast them over a pit of their own arrogant stupidity.
Maxis

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#25. Even the man whom we think we know best . . . is at bottom a stranger to us. He is different. The most we can do, and the best, is to have at least some inkling of his otherness, to respect it, and to guard against the outrageous stupidity of wishing to interpret it (1928, p. 220-221).

Anonymous

#26. The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.

Alfred North Whitehead

#27. The best part of being me is that everyone underestimates the depths of stupidity I'm willing to plumb in order to win out. Azrael

Tim Marquitz

#28. Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species.

Robert B. Leighton

#29. My dad used to say the definition of stupidity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Or maybe that was the definition of crazy.

David Estes

#30. I want your opinion on the best way to proceed. (Eli)
I'd start by killing your son and his crew of idiots before their stupidity spreads to anyone else and infects them. (Varyk)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#31. The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual history of mankind; it's the greatest weapon ever devised in the war against stupidity.

Philip Pullman

#32. We seem to face an enemy who, no matter how many times we win, will best us in the end. He has so many allies: time, disease, boredom, stupidity, religious quackery, and bad habits.

Tom Robbins

#33. There was a time, not so long ago, when the stupid and uneducated aspired to be thought intelligent and cultured people doing their best to feign stupidity.

Ernest Hemingway,

#34. Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Michel De Montaigne

#35. A man who writes a story is forced to put into it the best of his knowledge and the best of his feeling. The discipline of the written word punishes stupidity and dishonesty. A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you.

John Steinbeck

#36. Nothing is permanent. Anger passes. Stupidity is usually temporary. And even the best things in life can't last forever. ~Matt

Trish Doller

#37. Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#38. Trails need to be reconstructed. Please avoid building trails that go uphill.

Dave Barry

#39. More times than I can remember I look around and I ask why the hole I'm in looks so strangely familiar. Probably because it looks a whole lot like all the other ones I dug before I got around to digging this one.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#40. Tourism is the march of stupidity.

Don DeLillo

#41. Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

P. J. O'Rourke

#42. The book is worth reading, in part because it is enjoyable to read of
other people's folly, not to mention their avarice and stupidity."
Roger Lowenstein, reviewing "Devil Take the Hindmost: a History
of Financial Speculation", WSJ 6-1-99

Roger Lowenstein

#43. The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person's argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.

Auliq Ice

#44. Time and time again, the obstinate refusal of the tsarist regime to concede reforms turned what should have been a political problem into a revolutionary crisis ... the tsarist regime's downfall was not inevitable; but its own stupidity made it so.

Orlando Figes

#45. You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

Robert A. Heinlein

#46. Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.

John Green

#47. Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity.

Mason Cooley

#48. Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".

Leonard Woolf

#49. There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius with its omnipresent and fierce stupidity. Such a headless people has the mind of a worm and the claws of a dragon.

George Santayana

#50. Too many rocks in the mountains.

Dave Barry

#51. Racism, prejudice and discrimination are an inexplicable collective stupidity

Anderson Silva

#52. I think you impressed him with the sheer force of your stupidity.

Holly Black

#53. Carl Jung said that only an introvert could see "the unfathomable stupidity of man

Michael Finkel

#54. Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

Ronald Reagan

#55. An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.

Lord Chesterfield

#56. I look up at Eric,sniffing "I tried to...and..."I shake my head.
"You tired to what?" asks Eric
"Kiss me," says Tobias. "And I rejected her,and she went running off like a five-year-old. there's really nothing to blame her for but stupidity.

Veronica Roth

#57. There was, in his mind, no truer measure of stupidity than to imagine that the world could be reduced to two sides,

Steven Erikson

#58. If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off.

Kurt Vonnegut

#59. When thou shewest Respect to any one, see that thy Submissions be proportionable to the Homage thou owest him. There is Stupidity and Pride in doing too little; but in over acting of it, there is Abjection and Hypocrisy.

Max Frisch

#60. Goodness is more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love.

Colum McCann

#61. I had to be the world's biggest loser, writing about hair, and stuff about my body. No wonder I stopped keeping a journal. It was like keeping a record of my own stupidity. Why would I want to do that?

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#62. The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.

Leon Trotsky

#63. In America, the border of the property would have been gated to keep children and sleepwalkers and drunkards from dropping to their deaths, but there was no division here between safety and stupidity: you had to draw those lines yourself.

Courtney Maum

#64. He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he cannot perceive. And he's a fool a fool who tries to make such a blockhead believe.

Prince William

#65. A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.

R. Scott Bakker

#66. All three combined is ... a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind.

Veronica Roth

#67. I could have blamed it on the intoxication of youth.
Others might find fault on just intoxication.
My parents would say that it was an act of plain stupidity.
Reality would point out that it was Thursday night at college and the youth are prone to err.

Mara Joaquin

#68. Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#69. Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.

Carl Sagan

#70. An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and illusions of certainty and probability, history and stupidity.

William C. Brown

#71. Stupidity is the chlorine that cleans out the gene pool.

Scott M. Baker

#72. Don't ever mistake silence for ignorance, when it is obviously stupidity

Josh Stern