Quotes About People Stupidity

#1. I always told myself that if I was going to be given a voice, I might as well say something worth listening to and not something that's just going to feed people stupidity.

Alessia Cara

#2. In order to put an end to our conflicts; we must put an end to the religions people stupidity.

M.F. Moonzajer

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

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.

Tavi Gevinson

#5. Stupidity is not a behavior; it's a religion. One can die for it!

Raheel Farooq

#6. 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

#7. Smart people have the brains, but stupid people have the balls

Ana Saez Gonzalez

#8. The explanatory stories that people find compelling are simple; are concrete rather than abstract; assign a larger role to talent, stupidity, and intentions than to luck; and focus on a few striking events that happened rather than on the countless events that failed to happen.

Daniel Kahneman

#9. Mass democracy guarantees stupidity. Masses of people, even if they're individually intelligent, can only act stupidly.

Joseph Sobran

#10. People should be allowed to do whatever they wish.' 'Then there will be chaos,' shouted Daksha. 'Your stupidity is even more apparent than your immoral values!

Amish Tripathi

#11. This is going to leave a bad taste in a lot of people's eyes.

Louise Day Hicks

#12. Anything approaching to the free play of the mind is practically unknown amongst us. People cry out against the sinner, yet it is not the sinful but the stupid who are our shame. There is no sin except stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

#13. Stupidity is a relevant term and it is relevant to the owner of the stupid brain. Smartness is an irrelevant term and it is irrelevant to the owner of the smart brain because even the smart people can do and say stupid things.

Boris Zubry

#14. You are who you are what you say you are to people, but who are you when no one is watching?

Anonymous

#15. Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are mentally ill. Check 3 friends. If they are okay, you're it.

Henny Youngman

#16. 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,

#17. I belong to a stupid nation that kill and murder their own people for language and religion, then they call it foreigners interference.

M.F. Moonzajer

#18. People get a kick out of my stupidity.

Dolly Parton

#19. Americans are possibly the dumbest people on the planet ... We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.

Michael Moore

#20. 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

#21. People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

Sarah McLachlan

#22. I saw with open eyes, Singing birds sweet, Sold in the shops, For the people to eat, Sold in the shops of, Stupidity Street.

Ralph Hodgson

#23. Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#24. Most people are idiots

Christopher G. Nuttall

#25. Conscientious stupidity is a religion for most. Many will deny it, but it's those same people that find it easier to ignore the truth. This religion can only be followed by their humble ignorance. It's safe to assume, that this religion is an illusion of knowledge.

Lionel Suggs

#26. Bronagh," I said clearly. I hated when foreign people pronounced my name, they completely butchered it. "Bro-nah?" Dark twin correctly sounded it out then muttered about the stupidity of the G being silent.

L.A. Casey

#27. It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

Jerome K. Jerome

#28. 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

#29. There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.

Hermann Hesse

#30. That God should allow good people to be as bestially stupid as that--rose against me like a towering blasphemy.

G.K. Chesterton

#31. By an increase in anger, warfare arises. By an increase of greed, famine arises. By an increase of stupidity, pestilence arises. Because these three calamities occur, the people's earthly desires grow all the more intense, and their false views thrive and multiply.

Nichiren

#32. 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

#33. Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity has always treated genius.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#34. The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

Walter Bagehot

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

Catherine Lowell

#36. When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.

Albert Camus

#37. It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#38. I am the harvest of man's stupidity. I am the fruit of the holocaust. I prayed like you to survive, but look at me now. It is over for us who are dead, but you must struggle, and will carry the memories all your life. People back home will wonder why you can't forget.

Eugene B. Sledge

#39. It seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.

Karl Popper

#40. Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

Laurence J. Peter

#41. For people who like peace and quiet: a phoneless cord.

Dave Barry

#42. I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.

Milan Kundera

#43. The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people who feel certain about things they never try to find out. A world that educates people to be ignorant - that is what this world of ours is ...

Freya Stark

#44. The most ignorant of all people is a person who is self assured in his or her premature decisions.

Auliq Ice

#45. I'm not sure we're any better, but able to describe the attempt to track our wandering in circles in a way that perhaps somebody else can identify with. I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.

David Lipsky

#46. Diversity of opinions is not what is stopping people from living together in harmony. Stupidity is

Sameh Elsayed

#47. One cannot be betrayed if one has no people.

Takeru Kobayashi

#48. Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.

Slavoj Zizek

#49. In the end, this world will go under because of the stupidity of people.

George Harrison

#50. Smartass Disciple: Master, why do some people so stubborn and unruly ?
Master of Stupidity: Only when you want them do according to your wish.

Toba Beta

#51. I never give anyone the benefit of the doubt when it comes to stupidity. People do very, very stupid things, and smart people more than most.

Daniel Polansky

#52. He hated stupidity. It was the only emotion I had ever seen him display toward people - a

Ayn Rand

#53. Lawyers make nothing but confusion ... A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.

Thomas Bernhard

#54. Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

P. J. O'Rourke

#55. It's the wrong way. She's farther away from the door now. It occurs to me that some people only have book smarts.

Kendare Blake

#56. Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.

Auliq Ice

#57. You ever wonder if it's really not more complicated than that?" I ask. "That maybe everyone else is right, and people like you and me just need to quit looking for stuff to be depressed about?" She looks up, and then back at her dirt, dismissing this stupidity without comment. When

Matthew Norman

#58. Smartass Disciple: Master, why should people love each other ?
Master of Stupidity: Well, orgasm is felt better than kill each other.

Toba Beta

#59. One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet.

Carl Sagan

#60. What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#61. The truth is: Everyone will judge you. But this depends upon your intellectual capacity whether you are able to distinguish constructive criticism between an insult coming from other people's opinions about you.

Anonymous

#62. 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

#63. Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is two people because it is a statement of the impasse of dualistic universe which he has created, they have created. I think that any dualistic universe ends in Nova. Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is a kind of God. A God of stupidity, cowardice, ugliness.

William S. Burroughs

#64. Don't draw the line before stupidity. It'll take it as a start.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#65. Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

#66. Religion is designed for stupid people. Science is designed for stupid people who are embarrassed by their stupidity, who want to do something about it.

Paul Lutus

#67. One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#68. Stupidy is easy, everyone can learn it... You just say to stupid stuff and you are the big Job,... but try to be a wise that's what's hard and most people just try to destroy the wise people why??
Because they are too stupid to realease it!

Deyth Banger

#69. 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

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

Moliere

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

Garrison Keillor

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. [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

#78. I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

Marilyn Manson

#79. I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.

Derek Landy

#80. People say it is impossible to get out of stupidity; well, I was born religious and here I am an atheist.

M.F. Moonzajer

#81. When people look you in the eye and call you stupid, dont look away, but tell them that half of the world is stupid and they are one of them because they are dening their own stupidity.

Meg Cabot

#82. Ms Brennan is telling the very few people who attended an educational event: "You are warriors against the cult of stupidity that is taking over our nation.

Wendy Wunder

#83. Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.

Karl Albrecht

#84. I think that when people hear the president [George W. Bush] speak, frankly, they think he's really stupid. But what people don't realize is that there's a genius behind that stupidity, and that genius is Harlan McCraney.

Arianna Huffington

#85. The sad thing is that so many people, in the belief that the universe is organized to suit and influence them, are willing to sacrifice even the slight cranial capacity with which evolution has equipped us.

Christopher Hitchens

#86. O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#87. I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.

Tilda Swinton

#88. Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.

Louise Penny

#89. The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.

Will Rogers

#90. It's an old Camorri tradition for when a bunch of people are planning something stupid," said Locke. "Actually, we have a lot of traditions for that. You'll find out

Scott Lynch

#91. Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation over and see if there's a doorway somewhere. I think most people eventually do look for the doorway and stop bumping into the wall

Robert Anton Wilson

#92. What Democrats call 'nuanced', most people refer to as 'stupidity.'

Evan Sayet

#93. 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

#94. Smartass Disciple: Master, you should teach people not to do war to each other.
Master of Stupidity: I should teach people how to win their minds of their wars.

Toba Beta

#95. What a strange creature is a laughing fool,
As if a man were created to no use
But only to show his teeth.

John Webster

#96. People usually will remember people most, for the stupid things they did, than the impressionable ones. This somehow strangely, makes them feel better.

Anthony Liccione

#97. Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.

Peter Kreeft

#98. There is no greater stupidity than for people ... to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

Karl Marx

#99. Why are free spirits always so fucking dumb?

Don DeLillo

#100. My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A lot of people have really beautiful tattoos, and I get real tattoo envy. But then other people basically just treat them like bumper stickers for their bodies.

Ryan Reynolds