Quotes About Stupidity

Vengeance mixed with stupidity did not for sanity or safety make.

Life strove mightily to exile orthodoxy, hospitalize heresy, and trap humanity into stupidity. It was an accumulation of used bandages soiled with layers of blood and pus. Life was the daily changing of the bandages of the heart that made the incurably sick, young and old alike, cry out in pain.

Quello ch'io avrei voluto era morire in mezzo a estranei, sotto un cielo sgombro di nuvole. E nondimeno il mio desiderio differiva dai sentimenti dell'antico greco che ambiva morire nel Sole brillante. Quello ch'io avrei voluto era un suicidio natural, spontaneo; una morte simile a quella del volpacchiotto, non ancora ben pratico di astuzie, che va errando sbadatamente su un viottolo montano ed è colpito dal cacciatore a causa della sua stupidità.

What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of that ancient Greek who wanted to die under the brilliant sun. What I wanted was some natural, spontaneous suicide. I wanted a death like that of a fox, not yet well versed in cunning, that walks carelessly along a mountain path and is shot by a hunter because of its own stupidity…

The danger is that if we invest too much in developing AI and too little in developing human consciousness, the very sophisticated artificial intelligence of computers might only serve to empower the natural stupidity of humans.

The real problem with robots is not their own artificial intelligence but rather the natural stupidity and cruelty

Human stupidity is one of the most important forces in history, yet we often tend to discount it.

Even if war is catastrophic for everyone, no god and no law of nature protect us from human stupidity.

The danger is that if we invest too much in developing AI and too little in developing human consciousness, the very sophisticated artificial intelligence of computers might only serve to empower the natural stupidity of humans. We

The real problem with robots is not their own artificial intelligence, but rather the natural stupidity and cruelty of their human masters.

Hell is just stupidity and blundering and crassness; a gross assault on the sensitivities of the least

What a burden it must have been. You're very brave for facing it alone." "Thank you," she mumbled. "Amazingly, astonishingly stupid , but brave." She cracked a smile. "Yeah." "Very foolish, is what I'm getting at." "I can see that." "This, basically. Just thick. Dumb as a bag of hammers. Not too bright there, Valkyrie." "You can really stop complimenting me now.

It was his knowledge of his own willful stupidity that had brought on his irritation

The Vegetable, or From President to Postman was inspired by the pervasive stupidity, gross cronyism and rampant corruption—in the Veterans Bureau, the Departments of Justice and the Interior—during the administration of the philistine president, Warren Harding, in the early 1920s.

But you are right, being stupid is not illegal. Otherwise half this town would be behind bars.

Lust made an idiot of everyone it touched—Dexter felt stupidity shrouding his head like a hood in the shape of a dunce's cap.

Pero es que no ve lo que estoy sufriendo?... Que estupidez, ¿verdad? ¡Sufro como un niño!

N'était-ce pas stupide de croire à l'intelligence du public ?

No, I don't think you understand just how stupid goblins are. Let me give you an example. One of the B'wa Kell generals, and this is their top fairy, was caught caught trying to pass off forged credit slips by signing his own name.

If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

Reason is fallible and virtue invincible; the winds vary and the needle forsakes the pole, but stupidity never errs and never intermits.

Unasinous (adj.) Being equal to another in stupidity. If you are uncertain how one might use this word, just think of any two political parties. also

do something stupid in traffic, and suddenly they're seeing me in a pile of twisted metal, wearing my toes as a necklace.