Top 28 Malice Stupidity Quotes
#1. I'm just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable.
Stewart Lee
#2. Most wars start because someone makes a mistake, and most battles are lost by the losing side rather than won by the victors. I'm not sure if that makes things better or worse. I suppose it depends on which you disapprove of more, malice or stupidity.
K.J. Parker
#3. You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#4. For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
Aldous Huxley
#5. For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.
John Bunyan
#7. Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.
Spider Robinson
#8. If you really want to be a successful leader, you must develop other leaders around you. You must establish a team.
John C. Maxwell
#9. Reviewers do not read books with much care ... their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even than the profession of novelist.
Anthony Burgess
#10. One can overlook stupidity, until it evolves into malice.
Lizabeth Scott
#11. An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.
Robert Longo
#12. There's much more stupidity than there is malice in the world ...
William Gaddis
#13. Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Mark Twain
#14. You don't want to burn any bridges, but you also want to make sure you leave your character bridges wide open and you're never seen as one particular thing, or that's who you'll be, unfortunately, for the rest of your career.
Amanda Schull
#15. You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
Robert A. Heinlein
#16. Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't know.
Rod Serling
#17. In the United States, 25 percent of all Medicare spending is for the 5 percent of patients who are in their final year of life, and most of that money goes for care in their last couple of months that is of little apparent benefit.
Atul Gawande
#18. My films are misinterpreted all the time. I don't mind that. Everybody's films are misinterpreted. But there's no malice or stupidity in the people that misinterpret them. You know what you do, but someone else sees it, and they want to talk about it or write about it, and so they misinterpret them.
Woody Allen
#19. Never assume malice where stupidity will suffice.
V.A. Jeffrey
#20. To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive.
William Zinsser
#21. Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.
Janet Flanner
#22. It's not what you have, but whom you love that makes life worth living.
Val Stasik
#23. If you were a child and every time your relatives had a few drinks, they'd be running after you with scary faces and big hands to pull you back to sing Don't Cry For Me Argentina, you wouldn't like singing either.
Roisin Murphy
#24. He had the raw, rough voice of one who had marinated his larynx in whiskey and slow-cooked it in years of cigarette smoke.
Dean Koontz
#25. Our strive to succeed in life is an endless journey until we are called to our final resting place".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#26. Was he, after all, really a bad man doing a brilliant impersonation of an idiot? It was hard to tell. The connections between stupidity and malice were so tangled and so dense.
Edward St. Aubyn
#27. Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.2
Steven Pinker
