Quotes About Stupidity

L'intolleranza e la superstizione sono sempre state prerogativa della parte più stupida del volgo e credo che non saranno mai estirpate, perché sono eterne quanto la stupidità stessa. Là dove oggi torreggiano le montagne un giorno ci saranno i mari, là dove oggi si agitano i mari un giorno ci sarà il deserto. Ma la stupidità rimarrà stupidità.

Intolerance and superstition has always been the domain of the more stupid amongst the common folk and, I conjecture, will never be uprooted, for they are as eternal as stupidity itself.

Intolerance and superstition has always been the domain of the more stupid amongst the common folk and, I conjecture, will never be uprooted, for they are as eternal as stupidity itself. There, where mountains tower today, one day there will be seas; there where today seas surge, will one day be deserts. But stupidity will remain stupidity.

Hace falta decirte, buen brujo, quiénes son las buenas personas? Son aquéllas a las que el destino les ha escatimado las ocasiones de disfrutar de las ventajas de ser malos. O aquéllas que sí han dispuesto de tales ocasiones, pero han sido demasiado estúpidas para aprovecharlas.

Intolerance and superstition has always been the domain of the more stupid amongst the common folk and, I conjecture, will never be uprooted, for they are as eternal as stupidity itself. There, where mountains tower today, one day there will be seas; there where today seas surge, will one day be deserts. But stupidity will remain stupidity. Nicodemus

Intolerance and superstition has always been the domain of the more stupid amongst the common folk and, I conjecture, will never be uprooted, for they are as eternal as stupidity itself. There, where mountains tower today, one day there will be seas; there where today seas surge, will one day be deserts. But stupidity will remain stupidity. Nicodemus de Boot, Meditations on Life, Happiness and Prosperity CHAPTER TWO Triss

I can't fix stupid and I can't fix lazy.

I think, as you get older, you reflect at the silliness of your youth and the stupidity of some of the decisions that were made, and the ego and whatnot, or whatever played into it.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

Being a straight white guy in his, like, early twenties - there's some sort of thing about it. A sort of privilege, a sort of anger or something. You just say some really stupid things.

Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a living.

I don't worry about artificial intelligence. I worry about artificial stupidity.

You know, there's pride, and then there's stupidity

There's pride and then there's stupidity.

It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid.

My colleagues, they study artificial intelligence. Me? I study natural stupidity.

Abderian laughter. Inhabitants of ancient Abdera were known as rural simpletons who foolishly derided people and things they didn't understand. Thus these Thracians saw their name become a synonym for foolish, scoffing laughter or mockery. Though proverbially known for their stupidity, the Abderites included some of the wisest men in Greece, Democritus and Protagoras among them.

Can't you just read the directions?" "I could if I wasn't fueled by testosterone and stupidity, but where's the fun in that?

La ignorancia es una estupidez temporal debida a una falta de información, mientras que la estupidez es decidida, independientemente de cuánta información se transmita.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.

Socrates's daimon (the one who spoke first within him ) whispered to him: no. My daimon, on the contrary, is my stupidity: like the Nietzschean ass, I say yes to everything, in the field of my love.

Stupidity isn't a capital crime. And there's no death penalty here, anyway. There is now.

The same impulse to unman a social or cultural threat gambols across the exchange with Eliot. "Why you haven't been offered the lead in some sexy movies I can only attribute to the stupidity of casting directors," writes the movie star to the dour literary man.