Top 100 Stupidity Is Quotes
#1. The definition of stupidity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
David Estes
#2. 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
#3. Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
Gustave Flaubert
#4. So much of existence is so boring. To have little moments of stupidity is always welcome.
Kurt Braunohler
#5. Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
Gustave Flaubert
#6. Naivety is cured with time. Stupidity is terminal.
Eliza Crewe
#7. Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)
Max Hastings
#8. Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.
Mason Cooley
#9. Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous
Eckhart Tolle
#10. Stupidity is an unfortunate consequence of lousy genetic heritage. Ignorance is a choice.
Rowan Manahan
#11. The nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.
Marcel Proust
#12. Stupidity is singing the rebel anthem and hoping you won't get caught, Tucker," he had chided her. "But bravery is singing it proudly, hoping the king will come to fight you personally.
Emory Sharplin
#14. [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
#15. You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.
Franz Grillparzer
#16. Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
Michel De Montaigne
#17. Stupidity is expecting figs in winter, or children in old age.
Marcus Aurelius
#18. Stupidity is the prerogative of the wealthy. Pauper's field is crammed with smart guys.
Chandler Brossard
#19. Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#22. The best way to fight stupidity, is by ignoring it.
Kelly Kelly
#24. It is of first-rate importance to notice from the start that stupidity is not the same thing, or the same sort of thing, as ignorance. There is no incompatibility between being well-informed and being silly, and a person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.
Gilbert Ryle
#25. Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me ... I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.
Werner Herzog
#26. The difference between courage and stupidity is measured by success and survival.
Evan Currie
#27. Far too much corporate stupidity is disguised as cost-saving efficiencies.
Bill Jensen
#28. Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.
Sidney Hook
#29. what? When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves. From
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#30. We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
Paul Gauguin
#31. Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
Heraclitus
#32. Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties.
John Stuart Mill
#33. You haven't I suppose ever mixed with politicians at close quarters. They're awful ... their stupidity is inhuman.
Robert Skidelsky
#34. The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#36. Stupidity is brief and straightforward, while intelligence is tortuous and sneaky.
Anonymous
#37. Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.
Honore De Balzac
#38. This is not what you call courage?" "The difference between courage and stupidity is measured only by success and survival," he answered. "So ask me again when we're back topside.
Evan Currie
#39. Stupidity is what we all have in common as human beings, but some people insist that improving it is their entitlement.
Pete Edochie
#40. Stupidity is painfully.
Various
#41. If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
Francis Parker Yockey
#42. 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
#43. Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.
Bill Mollison
#44. I think that stupidity is like a wild fire burning through the social fabric of an intrinsically reasonable existence.
Travis Culliton
#45. Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
Karl Kraus
#46. Failure.
That is a word so little to our taste that many think it a virtue to claim that they never admit it. But blind stupidity is not one of the virtues; it is a weakness ...
John Wyndham
#47. If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.
Terry Gilliam
#48. Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever
Aristophanes
#49. Contention murders creativity and stupidity is in enmity with freethinking.
Joel T. McGrath
#50. Stupidity is not another form of knowledge.
Bill Maher
#51. 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
#52. Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
Anatole France
#53. Vik? You ready? (Devyn)
Your stupidity is what I live for, Captain. (Vik)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#54. 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
#56. The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
Voltaire
#57. Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God's blessings.
Shannon L. Alder
#58. The human race, for all our facets and our institutional stupidity, is something I believe in. I admire our diversity, our stubbornness. The dynamic of conflict is one of our greatest traits.
Peter F. Hamilton
#59. Why would you help us? (Delphine) I hear stupidity is a fatal disease. Doing my own experimentation to see if that's true or not. If I survive, we'll know it's not. If I die ... well, it'll suck. Bad. And I won't be happy. (Asmodeus)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#60. But stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances. 18
Stephen King
#61. Stupidity is a blockage in the ability to receive, integrate and transmit new signals.
Robert Anton Wilson
#62. 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
#64. Be selfish, stupid and have good health. But if stupidity is lacking, then all is lost.
Flaubert's dictum for getting through life unscathed.
Gustave Flaubert
#66. Stupidity is a luxury and you will find time and time and time and again that those who are overwhelmingly on the left are those who can afford to be.
Evan Sayet
#68. No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it
Fernando Pessoa
#69. Whether it's Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian or whoever, stupidity is certainly celebrated.
Jon Hamm
#70. Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.
Albert Einstein
#72. In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.
Walter Bagehot
#73. So I am perfectly free to buy any goods that are legally sold throughout Europe, provided that they can be delivered, even though they are not legal in Italy, even because in Italy only stupidity is legal.
Carl William Brown
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.
Albert Einstein
#78. I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!
John Green
#79. The most basic form of human stupidity is forgetting what we are trying to accomplish.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#80. Most of your heritage comes from your culture, stupidity is one of them.
M.F. Moonzajer
#81. Stupidity is a mindset of those who refuse knowledge! A mistake of judgment is an error, we make mistakes all of the time, it's stupid if you keep making the same mistakes often.
Monica Chrisandtras Hines
#82. Stupidity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#83. I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.
Brett Favre
#84. 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
#85. Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.
Gustave Flaubert
#87. I've made a habit of falling in love with cities I've never been to
And every once in a while I get the opportunity to be reckless
Under the guise that I'm only young once and stupidity is a state
I must learn the hard way
Marie Gibson
#88. Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it.
Lauren Bacall
#89. To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.
Julian Barnes
#90. 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
#91. Stupidity is the chlorine that cleans out the gene pool.
Scott M. Baker
#92. Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.
Claude Chabrol
#93. Stupidity is doomed,
therefore, to cringe
at every syllable
of wisdom.
Heraclitus
#95. As far as humanity is concerned the origin of stupidity is itself.
William C. Brown
#97. The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#99. The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.
John Cleese
#100. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while reason hedges and hides. Reason is a scoundrel, stupidity is direct and honest.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
