Quotes About Stupidity

One need not possess joys in order to taste their bitterness! Even to view them from afar off begets loathing of them. Thou must be fatigued by the monotony of the same actions, the length of the days, the hideousness of the world, the stupidity of the sun?

Some people are Freethinkers from sheer stupidity. My Uncle Sosthenes was one of these. Some people are often religious for the same reason.

Tiens, tu es stupide comme toutes les femmes. Vous n'agissez jamais que par passion. Vous ne savez pas vous plier aux circonstances… vous êtes stupides ! 

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.

The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

People say, 'If the Congress were more representative of the people it would be better.' I say the Congress is too damn representative. It's just as stupid as the people are, just as uneducated, just as dumb, just as selfish.

I am not at all impressed... at how far man's wisdom has managed to lead him; besides, it is not very great. What does surprise me, on the other hand, is how high their folly, their downright stupidity even, not to say their complete and utter blindness, has managed to raise them. Other things being equal, I prefer to follow the folly of man, for that has brought him farther than his wisdom.

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

You can't fix stupid but you can arrest stupid.

Against the background of the War and its brutal stupidity those men had stood glorified by the thing which sought to destroy them…. I

Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business.

I recalled when I worked in the woods and the bars of Madras, Oregon. That short-haired joy and roughness America your stupidity. I could almost love you again.

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

Love is an excuse to be stupid

La lotteria è una tassa sulla stupidità

When thou shewest Respect to any one, see that thy Submissions be proportionable to the Homage thou owest him. There is Stupidity and Pride in doing too little; but in over acting of it, there is Abjection and Hypocrisy.

Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity that the only way to live is to laugh until you think your heart will break.

I wish there was a plague that would target only stupid people,: he thought stormily. :Life would be so much easier for all the people that were left.:

P–E–E–R–S. That stands for People who Encourage Errors, Rudeness, and Stupidity

Anger leads to savagery,' I said curtly, 'and to stupidity.

Of the stupidity of men there seems no end.

Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.

The rulers of the world have always been stupid, but have not in the past been so powerful as they are now. It is therefore more important than it used to be to find some way of securing that they shall be intelligent. Is this problem insoluble? I do not think so, but I should be the last to maintain that it is easy.