Top 100 Stupidity Is Quotes
#1. An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.
Lord Chesterfield
#2. 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
#3. Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity.
Mason Cooley
#4. When thou shewest Respect to any one, see that thy Submissions be proportionable to the Homage thou owest him. There is Stupidity and Pride in doing too little; but in over acting of it, there is Abjection and Hypocrisy.
Max Frisch
#5. Understanding is the reward of obedience. Obedience is the key to every door. I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.
George MacDonald
#6. People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
Moliere
#7. [In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.
Stephen Hawking
#8. Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.
Claude Chabrol
#9. The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
Eric Hoffer
#10. Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
Edward Abbey
#12. Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that they are taught. They choose their lords and masters without judging them, with a fatal taste for slavery.
Gabriel Chevallier
#13. 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
#15. All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
Jean De La Fontaine
#16. Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.
Stephen Fry
#17. Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.2
Steven Pinker
#18. Stupidity ain't a virus, but it's sure is spreadin' like one. - Sandy Cheeks
Stephen Hillenburg
#20. Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it.
Lauren Bacall
#22. The good stupid is the brave kind. When there's a real reason behind. Bad stupid is everything else.
Brandon Mull
#23. Only one thing surprises me more than the stupidity with which most men live their lives and that is the intellegence inherent in that stupidity. [ ... ] The wise man makes his life monotonous, for then even the tiniest accident becomes imbued with great significance.
Fernando Pessoa
#24. It seemed odd no one had thought of it before but in general there is no accounting for the bovine stupidity of mankind.
Zachary Mason
#25. It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?
William Booth
#26. I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.
Brett Favre
#27. A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#28. Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
Jean Rostand
#29. My mission: to be an advocate and champion for humanity and this planet we call Earth, and to expose injustice, inequality and "stupidity" in whatever form or wherever it might exist, and have fun while doing it. This is my solemn pledge.
Nisfan Nawaz
#30. In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.
Walter Bagehot
#31. Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
Frank Zappa
#32. Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.
Raheel Farooq
#33. No one is born with hate in their heart. Hate is something that has been taught. It is not an innate survival skill that we need; It is a form of stupidity that penetrates our minds and will eventually destroy us.
Frank Iero
#34. The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.
Upton Sinclair
#36. Smartass Disciple: Master, why heaven is up there and hell is down there ?
Master of Stupidity: If otherwise, it wouldn't be celebrated as ascension day.
Toba Beta
#37. It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.
George Gissing
#38. It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.
Richard Dreyfuss
#39. When an intelligent person says a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing.
Marty Rubin
#40. All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.
Mark Haddon
#41. Stupidity is a tough, fecund thing, like crabgrass.
Stan Goff
#42. I believe that the BBC, in spite of the stupidity of its foreign propaganda and the unbearable voices of its announcers, is very truthful. It is generally regarded here as more reliable than the press.
George Orwell
#44. So here is another law, one of my favourite If I become famous the stupidy will end one for all. It's basically a jail for mankind stupidy!
Deyth Banger
#47. In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Hunter S. Thompson
#48. Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
Ai Weiwei
#49. Nothing is permanent. Anger passes. Stupidity is usually temporary. And even the best things in life can't last forever. ~Matt
Trish Doller
#50. Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard
#51. The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert
#52. 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
#53. The earth is a great piece of stupidity.
Victor Hugo
#54. You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
Harlan Ellison
#55. Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Eric Hoffer
#57. An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.
Markus Zusak
#58. Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several
from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.
Jean De La Bruyere
#59. Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.
Jim Butcher
#60. I've spent my entire adult life working and climbing side-by-side with men, so trust me when I say that most male stupidity is a result of one of two things. It's either their egos, or it's that junk in their pants.
Pamela Clare
#61. Is that gallantry I smell, or just stupidity? The two scents are much alike, as I recall.
George R R Martin
#62. Stupidity is the result of a complete absence of imagination, silliness of its excess
Martin Boyd
#63. Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.
William Hazlitt
#64. Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
Michel De Montaigne
#65. What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.
George Bernard Shaw
#66. Diversity of opinions is not what is stopping people from living together in harmony. Stupidity is
Sameh Elsayed
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
Karl Kraus
#73. Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.
Samuel Johnson
#75. Stupidity, once it overcomes its initial state of inertia, is sustained by its own momentum.
Nana Awere Damoah
#76. Stupidity is a blockage in the ability to receive, integrate and transmit new signals.
Robert Anton Wilson
#78. The greatest ugliness in the world is seeing so beautiful a creature spoil themselves on stupidity.
Michelle Franklin
#79. And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?
Orson Scott Card
#81. For getting a fine flourishing growth of stupidity there is nothing like pouring out on a mind a good amount of subjects in which it feels no interest.
George Eliot
#82. 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
#83. Mockery is an important social tool for squelching stupidity. I've never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument or the acquisition of new facts. But I've seen plenty of people change behavior to avoid being mocked.
Scott Adams
#84. Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.
Samuel Johnson
#85. Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God's blessings.
Shannon L. Alder
#86. When stupidity knocks at the door, it is stupidity that opens it.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#87. In a hollow head there is much room for knowledge.
Karl Kraus
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
Jean Cocteau
#92. Pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect.
Marcel Proust
#94. Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.
Werner Herzog
#95. Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.
Bill Mollison
#96. It's not getting any better for the American people. It seems to be getting worse. That's predictable; education is a cycle. Stupidity breeds more stupidity.
Bill Maher
#97. It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work.
Walter J. Phillips
#99. 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
#100. The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence flung at him so strange and overwhelming, that an assumed stupidity is his only refuge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
