Quotes About Stupidity

Above all else, their eyes obsessed me. In the standing tanks on either side of them, different fishes showed me the simple stupidity of their handsome eyes so similar to our own. The eyes of the axolotls spoke to me of the presence of a different life, of another way of seeing.

A veces me convenzo de que la estupidez se llama triángulo, de que ocho por ocho es la locura o un perro.

Pero los aniversarios son las grandes puertas de la estupidez...

It`s remarkable the truly stupid things people can do because it`s expected of them, or they think it`s expected of them.

Most wars start because someone makes a mistake, and most battles are lost by the losing side rather than won by the victors. I'm not sure if that makes things better or worse. I suppose it depends on which you disapprove of more, malice or stupidity.

The world is full of idiots, and always has been. But sometimes I wonder why such a disproportionate quantity of them end up running other people's lives.)

The people turn out to be—well, people; a collective noun for all those individual men and women, none of them perfect, some of them downright vicious, most of them monumentally stupid. As stupid as the emperor, the great hereditary lords, the priestly hierarchs, the General Staff and the Lords of the Admiralty, the merchant princes and the organised crime barons.

Although the Internet could be making all of us smarter, it makes many of us stupider, because it's not just a magnet for the curious. It's a sinkhole for the gullible. It renders everyone an instant expert. You have a degree? Well, I did a Google search!

But what if absolute consistency on any issue from the left or the right, religious or secular, is an indication of mediocre intelligence and a lack of intellectual honesty? What if the world is a complex place? What if leadership requires flexibility? What if ideology is a bad substitute for common sense? What if ideological consistency, let alone "purity," is a sign of small-mindedness, maybe even stupidity? Logically

I do not believe in pathos. Our elders show us long faces in order to hide their stupidity.

Half happy. We wander among Mayflowers, among the lonely paths in the woods. We hover over gatherings of people, over the scene of accidents, gardens, festivals. We cower in chimneys of dwelling places and behind the bed curtains. Give me your hand. We don't associate with each other, but we see and hear everything that is going on in the world. We know that everything is stupidity, everything that men do and contend for, and we laugh at it.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

There is more stupidity then hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

Military stupidity and the immensity of the sea are the two things which convey the idea of infinity

a woman of quite bovine stupidity and potato-like contours...

Tell me that you refuse to allow me to be so stupid. Tell me that you will not tolerate this relationship being over just when it was on the verge of really taking off.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Si l'humanité a été stupide pendant des millénaires, on ne s'explique pas comment elle a pu cesser de l'être, d'autant que ce fut dans un laps de temps relativement très court : et on se l'explique d'autant moins quand on observe avec quelle intelligence et quel héroisme elle a été stupide pendant si longtemps et avec quelle myopie philosophique et quelle décadence morale elle est devenue enfin "lucide" et "adulte".

At that moment, as I looked this man in the eye, I was reminded of Hanlon's razor, a philosophical notion that states one should never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. It occurred to me just then that, conversely, one ought never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by malice.

Stupidity was when you took risks for no good reason. Courage was when you took a calculated risk in order to accomplish something important. Had

If you're going to die, you might as well be doing something really, really stupid.