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Quotes About Stupidity

You'll find that no pride is greater than the pride that comes with being thick. Britain is filled with people who are really proud of their stupidity.
~ Andrew O'Hagan
How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?
~ Rush Limbaugh
Getting angry with her cousin, she reminded herself, was like getting angry with a sheep for being stupid. It ruined your day and the sheep was too dim to care.
~ Ruth Downie
Confidence and stupidity are a very dangerous combination, but they generally go together.
~ Sadhguru
Belief is just like morality. People who believe something often think they are superior to others. All that happens the moment you believe something is that your stupidity acquires confidence. Confidence and stupidity are a very dangerous combination, but they generally go together.
~ Sadhguru
Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.
~ Marc Estrin
Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
~ Anatole France
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.
~ Robertson Davies
this was 'Uncle Robson,' Mrs. Bloomfield's brother; a tall, self-sufficient fellow, with dark hair and sallow complexion like his sister, a nose that seemed to disdain the earth, and little grey eyes, frequently half-closed, with a mixture of real stupidity and affected contempt of all surrounding objects.
~ Anne Bronte
I've been astonished, time and again, at such rudeness and most of all … at such stupidity (Mrs. van Daan).
~ Anne Frank
she had fought hotly against injustice, vanity, and blind, towering stupidity. Occasionally, on the battlefield where death was a reality, she had won. But once back in England, making such arguments was like trying to write in the sand; the weight and complexities of the hierarchy of power erased her efforts like an incoming tide. For
~ Anne Perry
Tell me why evil people are so stupid? Why are so many of them just plain stupid?
~ Anne Rice
Alcohol provokes stupidity; opium provokes wisdom.
~ Sebastian Faulks
Whilst stupidity may indeed be a sin, it is also possible to be too clever. I sometimes fear, John, that you are too clever by half.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
Eleanor would have been indifferent to the immorality of her adultery, but would never have forgiven the stupidity of it.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
Well . . . he lets it ruin his life. He gets so obsessed with going after the one thing that hurt him that he loses sight of everything else. He becomes isolated from everyone and everything. Paranoid. He feels like he can't trust anyone around him ever. In the end, he loses everything, even his life. And for what? Total stupidity, if you ask me.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
That wasn't love; that was stupidity.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm going. But before I do, let me congratulate all of you on your stupidity. (Fury)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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
You asked my opinion and I gave it. Of course you have to remember that if I'd been on the island with Gilligan, he'd have been killed ten minutes into the first episode. Where I come from, incompetence and stupidity are reasons for justifiable homicide. (Varyk)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I can't believe you cheated! (Phobos) I can't believe you didn't know it. Man, what kind of god are you? I never knew stupidity had a divine representative. Guess I was wrong, huh? (Deimos)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Not many people carry out thoughts they know going into it are stupid…morons not included. (Apollymi)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Can't you flash us out?" – Abigail "My powers were strangled by a bitch-goddess as punishment for my gross stupidity. I'm lucky I can still flash myself, never mind other people. All I have is raw power and sexy, fighting prowess. Well, okay, if I had to, I might teleport one, maybe two others. But I wouldn't bet my better body parts on it." – Sasha
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon