Quotes About Intelligence And Stupidity

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

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Claude Chabrol

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

Jane Austen

#4. Beauty fades, dumb is forever.

Judy Sheindlin

#5. 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

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

John Corapi

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

Blaise Pascal

#8. 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

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

Nicolas Chamfort

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Kilroy J. Oldster

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

P. J. O'Rourke

#16. 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

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

Remy De Gourmont

#18. [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

#19. 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

#20. Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Terry Pratchett

#21. Reversed stupidity is not intelligence

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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

Marty Rubin

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

Erol Ozan

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

Remy De Gourmont

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

John Bunyan

#26. Artificial intelligence can never beat natural stupidity.

Anonymous

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

Jimmy Dore

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

Harlan Ellison

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Garrison Keillor

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

Brandon Sanderson

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

Terry Pratchett

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

P.G. Wodehouse

#35. 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

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

M.F. Moonzajer

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

Catherine Lowell

#38. 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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Iain Clements

#41. 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

#42. 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

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

Jonathan Franzen

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

Alexei Maxim Russell

#45. 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

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

Mark Haddon

#47. 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

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

Jean Cocteau

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

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Michael Lewis

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

Charles Kettering

#52. 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

#53. 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

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

Amos Tversky

#55. 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

#56. 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

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

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

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

Mark Twain

#59. Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.

Toba Beta

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

Joseph Addison

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

Albert Einstein

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

Anonymous

#63. 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

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

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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

David Weber

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

John Nardizzi

#67. 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

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

Donna Leon

#69. 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

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

Barney Frank

#71. 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

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

Georg Groddeck

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

Tammara Webber

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

Steve Polyak

#75. [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

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

George Orwell

#77. 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

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

Thiruman Archunan

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

Tibor Fischer

#80. 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