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Quotes About Stupidity

Any girl can look glamorous .... just stand there and look stupid
~ Doris Day
The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.
~ Douglas Preston
Ignorance means that you have not yet learned a skill, whereas stupidity means that you can never learn it no matter how much practice you get.
~ Dr. Paul Hauck
I'm naive enough to believe that society will be changed by examination of ideas through books and the press and that information can prove to be greater than the dissemination of stupidity.
~ Dr. Seuss
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.
~ Daniel Tammet
I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.
~ Stephen Malkmus
There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.
~ Karl Marx
Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder.
~ George V. Higgins
Evil isn't the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it's a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.
~ Jim Butcher
Hetta, we are women. Being stupid about men is our job. If we weren't stupid, we wouldn't have anything to do with them.
~ Jinx Schwartz
I figured it out this afternoon, when they let me take a walk around the grounds, that these cows are stupid. Bovine. I knew the word, but I hadn't quite appreciated how literal it could be. I
~ Jo Walton
Che uno deve a volte fingere di aver rabbia, ma rabbia proprio non si deve mai tollerare di averla. Perché, quando si nutre rabbia di qualcuno, è la stessa cosa che autorizzare quella medesima persona a venire a governare, durante tutto quel tempo, la nostra mente e il nostro sentire; e questo era mancanza di sovranità, e abbondante stupidaggine, e di fatto lo è.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Ce qui empêche les gens de vivre ensemble, c'est leur connerie, pas leurs différences.
~ Anna Gavalda
Ce qui empêche les gens de vivre ensemble, c'est leur connerie, pas leurs différences . [Ensemble, c'est tout]
~ Anna Gavalda
O sangramento da lua só me deixa abalada durante três dias num mês. Uma pila torna um homem potencialmente estúpido a qualquer hora do dia.
~ Anne Bishop
Moon's blood only throws me offstride three days out of a month. A cock makes a man potentially stupid at any hour of any day.
~ Anne Bishop
Violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easier to use your hands to strike a blow then to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to a problem.
~ Anne Holm
Violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easier to use your hands to strike a blow than use your brain to find a logical and just solution to a problem.
~ Anne Holm
He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive. -Tom Buchanan, The Great Gatsby
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mi fa piacere che sia femmina. E spero che sarà una stupida... è la cosa migliore per una bambina, a questo mondo, una bella e piccola stupida.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The "pure spirit" is a piece of pure stupidity: take away the nervous system and the senses, the so-called "mortal shell," and the rest is miscalculation—that is all!...
~ F. W. Nietzsche
blaming someone else is often much easier than taking responsibility. It was a national epidemic, along with stupidity and partisanship.
~ Fern Michaels