Quotes About Stupidity

I learned by observation that people who pursued extraordinarily unlikely goals were overly optimistic at best, delusional at worst, and just plain stupid most of the time.

I find it useful to remember I can't always tell the difference between genius and stupidity. Neither can anyone else, at least not every time. So when a person who is otherwise smart says something that sounds dumb to me, I remind myself that, in this situation, I might be the dog.

British generals often gave away in stupidity what they had gained in ignorance.

Agli stupidi non capita mai di pensare che il merito e la buona sorte sono strettamente correlati.

Stupid people always ignored good advice

indeed, vanity joined with pride can be detected in the fact e(b)that, in seeking God, miserable men do not rise above themselves as they should, but measure him by the yardstick of their own carnal stupidity, and neglect sound investigation; thus out of curiosity they fly off into empty speculations. They do not therefore apprehend God as he offers himself, bbut imagine him as they have fashioned him in their own presumption.

Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation.

Stupidity, he knew, did not recognize boundaries of color or creed. But he had come to believe that, like driving a car, people should have to pass a test before being allowed access to the Internet

God has placed clear limits on Man's intelligence, but none on his stupidity.

If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.

The group of stupid people collectively treats or makes an intelligent amongst them look like duffer and a fool living in a big network of enlightened minds even starts behaving sensibly in life.

mi superyó dice que si cometo esa estupidez se mudará a otra mente)

Humans are born not ignorant since crying immediately after birth is awareness of nature, and it is the start of knowledge; whereas, stupidity is by nature, not by education.

None of the dictionaries can accurately define stupidity than practically stupid itself; it authenticates an actual definition.

The eyes are the witness of beauty and hideosity; similarly, the ears are the witness of wisdom and stupidity.

The world has not yet such a thermometer or measure that can check one's idiocy.

You endorse only your own stupidity with your invective, mental filth, and ill-thinking, with such conduct you cannot impress any wise person, in the reply, to the language of abuse, silence is the best practice.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Y esa incapacidad para la acción independiente, esta estupidez moral, esta atrofia de la voluntad, esta mala gana para remover por sí mismo los obstáculos, es lo que retarda el bienestar colectivo de la sociedad.

Experience can only be achieved from mistakes, mistakes can only be achieved from stupidity, and stupidity can only be achieved from experience.

There is a moment in which I die: when I am in front of beauty, and another in which I kill myself: when I am in front of ugliness, and a third in which I do not die, nor kill myself: when I am in front of stupidity.

A person who has attained popularity not in reality,but superficially built it merely through media blitz or mass publicity is praised by only those people who have either stupidity deeply rooted in their life or are involved heavily into the activity of sycophancy and hypocrisy.

Crook and crafty authority rules at a place where stupidity prevails because of the majority of people being selfish or fools.

Lockdown is an atrocity of the authority on the common public because of the stupidity of majority of population in our whole society.