Quotes About Intelligence And Stupidity

#1. Intelligence and stupidity have equal chance of taking a man to divinity! The blind nature has no such distinctions.

Thiruman Archunan

#2. Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.

Toba Beta

#3. Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.

Joseph Addison

#4. The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

Mark Twain

#5. No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#6. You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.

Robert Cormier

#7. Fast and stupid is still stupid. It just gets you to stupid a lot quicker than humans could on their own. Which, I admit, is an accomplishment," she added, "because we're pretty damn good at stupid.

Jack Campbell

#8. My colleagues, they study artificial intelligence; me, I study natural stupidity.

Amos Tversky

#9. Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head, but once there, there was no shifting it.

Richard Killeen

#10. In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

Konrad Adenauer

#11. Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

Charles Kettering

#12. He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.

Michael Lewis

#13. People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Soren Kierkegaard

#14. Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

Jean Cocteau

#15. This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the "over" and just think, then we could do, too. Only we'd be smarter doers because we'd be thinkers.

Sarah Strohmeyer

#16. And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

Mark Haddon

#17. The most dangerous person ever to deceive is yourself, for in doing so you destroy your basis for honesty. Honesty is the foundation of intelligence, while dishonesty is the foundation of stupidity.

Orest Stocco

#18. Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.

Alexei Maxim Russell

#19. Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity.

Jonathan Franzen

#20. An all encompassing uncertainty on the part of any person is either a sign of utter stupidity or extreme intelligence. Only the not so dumb, or the not so smart, are ever certain about anything.

Derek R. Audette

#21. Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable when things break down. When things go well, it's better to be stupid ... Stupidity is as much a value as intelligence.

Susan Sontag

#22. The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.

Barney Frank

#23. I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as your most intelligent self. It is when you realize who you are and the extents of the good and the evils which you are capable of.

Criss Jami

#24. No amount of intelligence can save you from stupidity.

Tibor Fischer

#25. I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

Giacomo Casanova

#26. Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

George Orwell

#27. [I am fascinated by stupidity] because normal intelligence is boring. Two plus two makes four - finished. You have no possibilities! Stupidity is infinite. Two plus two can make billions of different numbers.

Umberto Eco

#28. Before we work on artificial intelligence, why don't we do something about natural stupidity?

Steve Polyak

#29. Not stupid. Overly trusting, maybe, but that reflects on his lack of trustworthiness, not on your intelligence.

Tammara Webber

#30. Human intelligence is nothing but the stupidity acquired through repression.

Georg Groddeck

#31. A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Bertrand Russell

#32. Artificial intelligence is no match
for natural stupidity - Anonymous

Iain Clements

#33. In summary, Intelligence Intensification is desirable, because there is not a single problem confronting humanity that is not either caused or considerably worsened by the prevailing stupidity (insensitivity) of the species: badly wired robots bumping into and maiming and killing each other.

Robert Anton Wilson

#34. Brunetti had long been of the opinion that one of the handicaps of stupidity was its inability to imagine intelligence.

Donna Leon

#35. 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

#36. For every criminal mastermind, there were ten cretins: the cruel algebra of intelligence applied across the masses.

John Nardizzi

#37. There was an almost terrifying lack of intelligence in his eyes.

David Weber

#38. Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. I make money studying natural stupidity.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#39. The world supports a multi-million dollar industry of intelligence and ability research, but it devotes virtually nothing to determine why this intelligence is squandered by engaging in amazing, breathtaking acts of stupidity.

Robert Sternberg

#40. Stupidity is brief and straightforward, while intelligence is tortuous and sneaky.

Anonymous

#41. The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

#42. Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity. For Chance rarely conflicts with intelligence, and most things in life can be set in order by an intelligent sharpsightedness.

Democritus

#43. If one accepts Jean Piaget's famous definition of mature intelligence as the ability to coordinate between multiple perspectives (or possible perspectives) one can see, here, precisely how bureaucratic power, at the moment it turns to violence, becomes literally a form of infantile stupidity.

David Graeber

#44. [Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

George Bernard Shaw

#45. It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity.

Remy De Gourmont

#46. Stupidity is actually in a way the mark of intelligence - if you're not doing stupid things that defy logic you're probably not taking enough risks.

Gregor Collins

#47. Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.

P. J. O'Rourke

#48. A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#49. Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was.
Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

Terry Pratchett

#50. IQ's are a combination of eyes, and queues. Would you wait in line to see my goat show? Of course you wouldn't, because the line is invisible.

Will Advise

#51. The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#52. Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Terry Pratchett

#53. Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.

Nicolas Chamfort

#54. Took me a few years to understand what intelligence is; Took me an entire lifetime to understand ignorance. I still haven't found an explanation for ignorance, because the ignorant are too ignorant to justify their ignorance.

Robin Sacredfire

#55. I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

Blaise Pascal

#56. God has placed clear limits on Man's intelligence, but none on his stupidity.

John Corapi

#57. People believe unbelievable things because it's self-flattering to think that you are intellectually daring enough to accept what others find preposterous.

Christopher Buckley

#58. Beauty fades, dumb is forever.

Judy Sheindlin

#59. Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

Jane Austen

#60. Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

Claude Chabrol

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

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#62. Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#63. There is the will of the people; there is the will of the mind! Always be at the side of the second one! The first one contains mostly stupidity; the second one contains always intelligence.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#64. The great reward given to intelligent people is that they can invent all the rules and equate any dissent with stupidity.

Catherine Lowell

#65. Bravery is not an act of intelligence; it is just selfishness and stupidity.

M.F. Moonzajer

#66. Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.

Thomas Sowell

#67. He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

P.G. Wodehouse

#68. The nice thing about artificial intelligence is that at least it's better than artificial stupidity.

Terry Pratchett

#69. Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

Brandon Sanderson

#70. Computers can never completely replace humans. They may become capable of artificial intelligence, but they will never master real stupidity.

Garrison Keillor

#71. Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

H. Rider Haggard

#72. Military intelligence was as nothing to military stupidity.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#73. You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

Harlan Ellison

#74. I am not the sharpest knife in the knife-thing.

Jimmy Dore

#75. Artificial intelligence can never beat natural stupidity.

Anonymous

#76. I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

John Bunyan

#77. Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Remy De Gourmont

#78. A stupid friend can hurt you more than a smart enemy.

Erol Ozan

#79. When an intelligent person says a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing.

Marty Rubin

#80. Reversed stupidity is not intelligence

Eliezer Yudkowsky