Quotes About Stupidity

I've said a million times that if more stupid people killed themselves over stupid songs, there would be less stupid people in the world.

Por eso afirmaba que, para contrarrestar el estado de ignorancia y estupidez que podía acarrear a los trabajadores lo mecánico de su tarea, la educación era indispensable y debía ser financiada, para quienes no podían costeársela, por el Estado o la sociedad civil.

It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.

You know a fact that strikes one very forcibly as one grows older is that some people are intelligent and some are stupid.

As for the plea, that a man did not know that habits are produced from separate acts of working, we reply, such ignorance is a mark of excessive stupidity.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

It's stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

If they have disappeared from the rest of the world it was assuredly on account of their own stupidity, which made it impossible for them to adapt themselves to changing conditions.

No. You're asking me to support your stupidity. And you know how I feel about fools. I ate all the dumb ones in every litter Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or so I thought. Apparently, I somehow missed you.

La stupidità ci faceva ridere, era uno dei nostri grandi motivi di spasso, ma aveva anche qualcosa di spaventevole. Se avesse prevalso, non avremmo più avuto il diritto di pensare, di prendere in giro, di provare veri desideri, veri piaceri. Bisognava combatterla o rinunciare a vivere.

He who first invented the notion of defending Christianity is de facto Judas No. 2; he also betrays with a kiss, only his treachery is that of stupidity.

Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous

It has always amazed me how angry people can get at my stupidity. How do they think I feel? They only have to be around me a couple of hours at a time. I've got me all day.

It is not owing to stupidity that they have preferred other forms of exercise to those of the mind.

Failure. That is a word so little to our taste that many think it a virtue to claim that they never admit it. But blind stupidity is not one of the virtues; it is a weakness...

For a long while I have lived with the notion that I was the most normal being that ever existed. This notion gave me the taste, even the passion for being unproductive: what was the use of being prized in a world inhabited by madmen, a world mired in mania and stupidity? For whom was one to bother, and to what end? It remains to be seen if I have quite freed myself from this certitude, salvation in the absolute, ruin in the immediate.

Îmi pare r?u c? nu suf?r de halucinaÅ£ii ca s? înjgheb o conversaÅ£ie cu vocile m?rii, spre a uita pe oameni ÅŸi femeile lor. Destinul meu de ex-amorezat într'o lume de p??iri zadarnice ÅŸi repetate m? apropie mai mult ca niciodat? de prostia elementelor, de clarele non-r?spunsuri ale naturii.

But in our dislike of the individual do not let us mistake the diagnosis of his disease. He suffers not from ignorance but from stupidity. Give him learning and you make him not wise, but only more pretentious in his folly.

we probably don't know many of the answers and can't argue cleverly. And yet I suppose there's room for the stupid as well,

Alfred] Jarry's teaching could be summarized thus: every man is capable of showing his contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the universe by making his own life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.

It's funny to consider how important things like that felt to me then. Proving people wrong. Fighting stupidity. Wanting formal recognition. It took me a long time to learn that proving people wrong is purposeless, fighting stupidity is futile, and formal recognition prevents people from underestimating you—and thereby from ceding to you surprise and other tactical advantages.

It took me a long time to learn that proving people wrong is purposeless, fighting stupidity is futile, and formal recognition prevents people from underestimating you—and thereby from ceding to you surprise and other tactical advantages.

That fine line between bravery and stupidity is endlessly debated – the difference really doesn't matter.

Understanding is the reward of obedience. Obedience is the key to every door. I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do .