Top 86 Quotes About Human Stupidity
#1. Dogbert to Dilbert
"My invention can detect human stupidity. It has a very simple interface. All I do is point it at people."
"Then what does it do?"
"Why would it need to do anything else?
Scott Adams
#2. As Albert Einstein once said to me: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity." But what is much more widespread than the actual stupidity is the playing stupid, turning off your ear, not listening, not seeing ... playing helpless.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#3. Had I paused to reflect, I would have understood that my devotion to Clara brought me no more than suffering. Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursing those who hurt us the most.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#4. You are an unusual, brilliant child who has not seen enough of life to grasp the full measure of human stupidity.
Ayn Rand
#5. Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#6. If there is one thing we admire about National Socialism it's the fact that it has succeeded, for the first time in German politics, in the complete mobilisation of human stupidity."30
Volker Ullrich
#7. The reading of good books could soothe human stupidity, the problem is that human stupidity does not like to read.
Carl William Brown
#8. The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
Voltaire
#9. We can't against human stupidity. Because they are too many and too dangerous.
Nobita Nobi
#11. History meant nothing, because the only continuity was human stupidity.
Steven Erikson
#12. A person sometimes believes she's seen all the way to the bottom of the well of human stupidity, and a reminder that that well apparently has no bottom is sometimes useful.
Stephen King
#13. There is a limit to human intelligence, but there is no limit to human stupidity
Piero Scaruffi
#14. Somehow creationists keep us naturalists in track to some extent. They are the representation of human stupidity at its extreme. And we need some stupidity in the society for true intellect to be adored.
Abhijit Naskar
#15. 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
#16. There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe
Albert Einstein
#17. Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
Gustave Flaubert
#18. Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
#19. The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. Oh, oh human stupidity, probably that's why I don't succeed with mankind, somebody says "Can I stop by?" you answer "Okay..." or "Sure""... but why and saying what you are doing in case he hasn't asked you?
Deyth Banger
#21. This failure to ask reflects human stupidity less than it reflects human history.
Peter F. Drucker
#22. Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy and human stupidity. These are not things you can overcome with a "methodology" or on a schedule.
Damian Conway
#23. Examples of human stupidity. Blasphemy in Pakistan can now include spelling errors by children or throwing away a card bearing the name "Muhammad".
William C. Brown
#25. The most basic form of human stupidity is forgetting what we are trying to accomplish.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#26. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
#27. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein
#28. Q: Are you guys shooting a movie?
A: No. We're opening a mid-priced Italian restaurant.
Q: Huh?
A: Yes of course we're shooting a movie.
Q: What's the movie about?
A: It's a documentary about human stupidity.
Q: Can I be in your movie?
A: We'd be stupid not to put you in it.
Jesse Andrews
#29. We wait upon finite minds to validate infinite things - this is evidence of human stupidity.
C. JoyBell C.
#30. By the time the Somnambulist had set her creaking bones to rest on their assigned landing pad, Holden had lost all patience with human stupidity.
So, of course, it came out to meet him.
James S.A. Corey
#31. Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies and which human stupidity is keen to accept in payment
Michel De Montaigne
#32. It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.
C.S. Lewis
#33. There is no patch for human stupidity
Anonymous
#34. Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.
Raymond E. Feist
#35. By studying human history, we can realize how much of human stupidity has fallen on fertile ground. Is gravity guilty for such an occurrence too?
Eraldo Banovac
#36. I assure you it's harder to battle human stupidity than to do battle with mountains. Mountains, after all, have holds.
Erhard Loretan
#37. The novice-friendly software is more like a misbehaving dog: it shits on the floor, it destroys things, and stinks - the novice-friendly software embodies the opposite of what computer people have dreamed of for decades: artificial stupidity. It's more human.
Erik Naggum
#38. Stupidity is what we all have in common as human beings, but some people insist that improving it is their entitlement.
Pete Edochie
#39. Trouble is not a sign of inadequacy, stupidity or inferiority, but rather an inescapable part of life - proof that you are a card-carrying member of the human race.
Ann Landers
#40. BTW A 24 week old embryo is not a human being. You're not a human being until you're in my phone book.
Bill Hicks
#41. We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves
George Eliot
#42. If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
Albert Einstein
#43. 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
#44. The human race, for all our facets and our institutional stupidity, is something I believe in. I admire our diversity, our stubbornness. The dynamic of conflict is one of our greatest traits.
Peter F. Hamilton
#45. Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.
Albert Einstein
#46. In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#47. Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
Carlo M. Cipolla
#48. Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.
William Shakespeare
#49. Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.
Bruce Sterling
#51. Maple thought optimistically that human beings, on their good days, weren't much dimmer than sheep. Or at least, not much dimmer than dim sheep.
Leonie Swann
#52. No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#53. Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.
James A. Garfield
#54. The human civilization has gone extremely so far; that in return, we have lost the line between stupidity and spirituality.
M.F. Moonzajer
#55. Human intelligence is nothing but the stupidity acquired through repression.
Georg Groddeck
#56. Could we have seen this efflorescence of stupidity? Yes, because every mass political movement unleashes the worst in human behaviour and admires it. For a time at least.
Doris Lessing
#57. As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.
Jack Kelly
#58. Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
Carl Sagan
#59. Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.
Harry S. Truman
#60. the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity. She and the rebel angels, the followers of wisdom, have always tried to open minds; the Authority and his churches have always tried to keep them closed.
Philip Pullman
#61. Smartass Disciple: Master, why there was no second chance in garden of eden?
Master of Stupidity: Of course. Perhaps, human can only enjoy one-time virginity.
Toba Beta
#62. The easiest way to witness the stupidity and misplaced hopes of all humanity is to watch, for twenty minutes, a human being using a leaf blower.
Dave Eggers
#63. The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped primitive minds, bewildered, torturing one another in their stupidity, yet one and all in some unique manner, beautiful.
Olaf Stapledon
#64. You know you are a human when a beautiful image appearing on television/computer/smartphone/tab screen appears more alive than a living being.
Basically, we are stupid.
Saurabh Sharma
#65. Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
Michel De Montaigne
#66. In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
Walter Kirn
#67. If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its symptoms are endless.
Richard Armour
#68. In the background, while you crochet and golf and browse cat videos, science is fighting against your stupidity. No other human enterprise is fighting as hard, or at least not fighting and winning.
David McRaney
#69. Smartass Disciple: Master, why God let human did sins in the beginning?
Master of Stupidity: If the saviour must come, why should He prevent that?
Toba Beta
#71. The superflu we can charge off to the stupidity of the human race. It doesn't matter if we did it or the Russians, or the Latvians.
Stephen King
#72. Human history would be nothing but a record of stupidity save for the cunning contributions of the weak
Friedrich Nietzsche
#73. When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature ...
Marie Bashkirtseff
#74. I am not a snob, because I know opulence doesn't stamp out ignorance and unhappiness.
Sarina Bowen
#75. It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.
Franz Kafka
#76. The Internet is the aggregate of human derpitude.
Listening to the Internet without being confident you've found a well-curated garden relative to the area of concern is a bad idea.
Jeff Alexander
#77. It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid.
Robert Gibbs
#78. Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.
Avital Ronell
#79. But if we reason it out simply and not try to be one bit fancy, then what sort of pride can you possibly take or what's the sense of ever having it, if man is poorly put together as a physiological type and if the enormous majority of the human race is brutal, stupid, and profoundly unhappy?
Anton Chekhov
#80. Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.
Max Brooks
#81. All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.
Philip Pullman
#82. Nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very similar to using lots of words, for the more imprecise a word is, the greater the area it covers.
Robert Musil
#83. He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work night and day could be cast aside by such a man
John Le Carre
#84. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
Carlo M. Cipolla
#85. Diversity of opinions is not what is stopping people from living together in harmony. Stupidity is
Sameh Elsayed
#86. 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
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