Top 100 Quotes About Stupidity
#1. The most abundant element in the Universe is stupidity
Frank Zappa
#2. We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent - place him in the garden of Eden, and he would not find it out unless he were told, and when told, he would not believe it.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#3. The stupidity of the American voter is exceeded only by its slovenliness.
Jonathan Gruber
#4. ... see failure not as a sign of stupidity but as a lack of experience and skill.
(Seth Abrams)
Carol S. Dweck
#6. Insanity is just what we call stupidity when it doesn't make sense.
Josh Lieb
#7. There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
Cesare Pavese
#8. I was thinking that if what distinguishes us as humans is our stupidity, what may redeem us is our grace.
Earl Lovelace
#9. I would nearly go into convulsions of dismay at my stupidity.
Yann Martel
#10. 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
#11. To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparable of vices is to do evil from stupidity.
Charles Baudelaire
#12. She hadn't listened.she never did.maybe she did deserve to die after all, if nothing else, then just for her sheer stupidity.and for the way she'd treated James too
Elle Aycart
#13. Naivety is cured with time. Stupidity is terminal.
Eliza Crewe
#14. 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
#15. All happiness is a work of art: the smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it, the slightest stupidity brutalizes it.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#16. stupidity was an equal opportunity condition.
Mary Monroe
#17. Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.
Rabindranath Tagore
#18. There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.
Evan Esar
#19. I deplore the death and destruction she [Hillary Clinton] caused-stupidity.
Donald Trump
#20. How would I feel about hearing that the plague killed another nearby village a month later? Didn't I tell you stupidity is the eighth sin?
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Cameron Jace
#21. This "manna from heaven" was being squandered because of the laziness and stupidity of the savages who refused to work as harvesters of latex and obliged the planters to go to the tribes and take them by force. Which meant a great loss of time and money for the enterprises. "Well,
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#22. Someone said: I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#23. 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
#24. Smartass Disciple: Master, I believe that the truth will prevail at the end.
Master of Stupidity: No 'the end' for the truth. 'Prevail' is something else.
Toba Beta
#25. Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.
Robert A. Heinlein
#26. 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
#27. Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
Gustave Flaubert
#28. The news had, for Flaubert, armed stupidity and given authority to fools.
Alain De Botton
#29. So much of existence is so boring. To have little moments of stupidity is always welcome.
Kurt Braunohler
#30. Stupidity alone can sometimes be tolerable, but when you add arrogance to the mix, you then become a stupid bitch.
D.S. Mixell
#31. But time was slipping away; in another minute it would be too late; and urgency acted not as a spur but as a creeping paralysis which clogged the mind, and weighted the tongue, and imposed on desperation a blanket of numb stupidity.
Georgette Heyer
#32. As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life:
~people applaud you incessantly.
~love you more than their parents.
~give you a daily bread.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#33. For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?
Linda Hunt
#34. I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
Lorraine Hansberry
#35. Enjoy your own authentic stupidity rather than strive vainly to be wise.
David Brandon
#36. Nobody likes to offer stupidity as an excuse.
Mason Cooley
#37. Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#38. Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.
Christoph Martin Wieland
#39. No amount of intelligence can save you from stupidity.
Tibor Fischer
#40. The two most common elements in the world are hydrogen and stupidity.
Arthur Miller
#41. I think we have underestimated their Gods; they have made millions stupid, and we are even not able to get one out of that stupidity.
M.F. Moonzajer
#42. Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]
Fernando Pessoa
#43. Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
Gustave Flaubert
#44. There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe
Albert Einstein
#47. Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#48. Everything seems to be catching up with me at once. My failures. My cowardice. My stupidity. Sometimes I'm just so tired of this life.
Tahereh Mafi
#49. Come on, gentleman; let us drink to our stupidity.
Santosh Kalwar
#50. Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God's blessings.
Shannon L. Alder
#51. The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
Voltaire
#52. The Good Lord hasn't done this well: He placed limits on everything, except on stupidity.
Konrad Adenauer
#53. Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.
Tallulah Bankhead
#54. I'm not going to do anything stupid. And even if what I plan is risky and insane, it's a well-thought-out level of stupidity.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#55. Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
Sophocles
#56. 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
#57. One of the main purpose of art has ever been that of making its indispensable contribution to the growth of entropy of the universal stupidity.
William C. Brown
#58. But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
Erwin Rommel
#59. Mars and my stupidity keep trying to kill me.
Andy Weir
#61. When stupidity knocks at the door, it is stupidity that opens it.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#62. There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
Ellen Glasgow
#63. There's a fundamental stupidity in mankind which is as eternal as life itself.
Gustave Flaubert
#64. Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.
Robert Baden-Powell
#65. Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I'm not stupid. (Xypher)
I didn't say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#66. Still, to paraphrase what John Stuart Mill said about the stupidity of the Tories, while not all people who claim to be politically incorrect are assholes, it's exactly the sort of thing an asshole is apt to say. (183)
Geoffrey Nunberg
#67. Vik? You ready? (Devyn)
Your stupidity is what I live for, Captain. (Vik)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#68. One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.
Alfred Jarry
#71. Smartass Disciple: Master, where is exactly the edge of this universe ?
Master of Stupidity: Edge is wherever the absence of universal gravity.
Toba Beta
#72. Smartass Disciple: Master, I don't need a fairytale.I need you to tell me the truth.
Master of Stupidity: It is not funny if you just found it. No drama if no lost at first.
Toba Beta
#73. Stupidity was when you took risks for no good reason. Courage was when you took a calculated risk in order to accomplish something important. Had
Brandon Mull
#74. Totalitarian states use propaganda to orchestrate historical amnesia, a state-induced stupidity. The object is to make sure the populace does not remember what it means to be free. And once a population does not remember what it means to be free, it does not react when freedom is stripped from it.
Chris Hedges
#75. He was one of the vast numbers of people who cannot imagine themselves into the class or gender, least of all the emotions, of a different person. That is lack of vision or sensitivity, even compassion, but it is not stupidity.
Anne Perry
#76. Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
Anatole France
#77. 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
#78. The brilliant Schiller was wrong in his Joan of Arc when he said against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. It is actually by means of the gods that we make our stupidity and gullibility into something ineffable.
Christopher Hitchens
#79. We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world's evils, only to find we've raised a pack of innocents who seem to be about to stumble into them at every turn just from sheer stupidity!
Samuel R. Delany
#80. I can't believe you cheated! (Phobos) I can't believe you didn't know it. Man, what kind of god are you? I never knew stupidity had a divine representative. Guess I was wrong, huh? (Deimos)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#81. Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure stupidity - or, rather, inattention, misinformation about fundamentals, and an exaggerated focus on currently circulating stories.
Robert J. Shiller
#82. It occurs to hi that what he has failed to impart through wisdom, he may well have imparted through stupidity.
Jonathan Tropper
#83. Though you can live for as much as you like, but your longevity is stupidity if you were leading a worthless life.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#86. It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.
Carlos Castaneda
#87. Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
Jean Cocteau
#89. I think we can rule out 'mixed brain dominance' as a cause of your poor performance at school, Charlie Brown" "Have you ruled out stupidity?" "Peanuts", Charles M
Charles M. Schulz
#90. In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.
Thomas Sowell
#91. Don't push me." She stopped and glared at me over her shoulder. "You're my friend, Shannon. I care about you, but if I have to choose, I choose Cole. So back the fuck off before I slap the fucking stupidity out of you.
Samantha Young
#92. The best part of being me is that everyone underestimates the depths of stupidity I'm willing to plumb in order to win out. Azrael
Tim Marquitz
#93. A democracy, mistakes can eventually be rectified and people who perpetrate stupidity or even atrocities are regarded, with the passage of time, more with tolerance and pity than with hate.
Heda Margolius Kovaly
#94. Two things are universal: Hydrogen and stupidity
Frank Zappa
#95. He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.
Michael Lewis
#96. My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.
Vladimir Nabokov
#97. It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.
P.D. James
#99. Stupidity is not another form of knowledge.
Bill Maher
#100. Smartass Disciple: But, you said that it's the truth??
Master of Stupidity: O Yes. That is yesterday's truth.
Toba Beta
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