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Quotes About Stupidity

Don't do anything stupid." "Don't worry," I whispered over the line, "I'm an expert on stupid." "You're..." "Like, I can spot stupidity, because I know it so well. The way an exterminator knows bugs really well, and can spot where they've been? I'm like that. A stupidinator." "Never say that word again," Prof said.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Damn, I miss the internet. You could always find people doing stupid stuff on the internet.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I'm not of your religion. . ." "Death is not a religion," Ironeyes said. "It is a fact." "But--" "How would you like to die, mortal?" Ironeyes asked, stepping closer, robes billowing around him. "And when? Quietly? In the night, of a failing heart? Drowning, on one of your new ships as it sinks? Here? Right now? Crushed by the weight of your own stupidity?
~ Brandon Sanderson
The sum total of stupid people is somewhere around the population of the planet. Plus one.
~ Brandon Sanderson
An uneducated, half-brained serving boy with a hangover could make mock of you. I am left with no need to exert myself, and your very nature makes mockery of my mockery. And so it is that through sheer stupidity you make me look incompetent.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Power is a knife," Wit said, taking his seat. "A terrible, dangerous knife that can't be wielded without cutting yourself. We joked about stupidity, but in reality most people aren't stupid. Many are simply frustrated at how little control they have over their lives. They lash out. Sometimes in spectacular ways…
~ Brandon Sanderson
Unknowing ignorance is preferred to informed stupidity.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Good intentions that are not clothed in reason lead to greater disasters than those actions built on ill will or stupidity.
~ Henning Mankell
As if there were safety in stupidity alone.
~ Henry David Thoreau
To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that. Then she wondered if it were vain and stupid to think so well of herself. When had it even been a guarantee to be valuable? Wasn't all history full of the destruction of precious things? Wasn't it much more probable that if one were fine one would suffer?
~ Henry James
Ma le riflessioni sono un magro conforto: l'unica consolazione che conti al mondo è non essere stati stupidi, uno stato di grazia del quale, senza dubbio, io non godrò mai.
~ Henry James
One can fight evil but against stupidity one is helpless.
~ Henry Miller
Dondequiera que fuese fomentaba la discordia: no porque fuera idealista, sino porque era como un reflector que revelaba la estupidez y futilidad de todo.
~ Henry Miller
As dialect began to be collected in the late 19th century, such words as Yorkshire's 'gobslotch' emerged, revealing the burgeoning association between gluttony and stupidity.
~ Susie Dent
The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
the Great Vaccination — the vaccination against the stupidity of the intelligentsia.
~ Álvaro de Campos
Some days I don't know what is greater.My wisdom, or my stupidity.
~ Sanober Khan
Judging by the the movie's enduring popularity, the message that stupidity is redemption is clearly what a lot of Americans want to hear.
~ Jonathan Rosenbaum
I don't mind people thinking I'm stupid, but I don't want to give them any proof.
~ Bum Phillips
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
~ Stephen Vizinczey
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
~ Stephen Vizinczey
I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
~ Steve Martin
Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity?
~ Steve Polyak
History meant nothing, because the only continuity was human stupidity.
~ Steven Erikson