Quotes About Stupidity

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly ignorance about ourselves.

It's more habit than stupidity when I laugh at these things. I laugh at them to stay a sane man.

People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.

The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid.

Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

The enemy wasn't men, or women, or the old, or even the dead. It was just bleedin' stupid people, who came in all varieties. And no one had the right to be stupid.

The nice thing about artificial intelligence is that at least it's better than artificial stupidity.

We're really good at it, Teppic thought. Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

El C. I. de una muchedumbre es el C. I. de su miembro más estúpido dividido por el número de sus integrantes.

Yet because of the ignorance and stupidity of so many of those about him, he was able to consider himself at least fairly learned.

The death house in this particular prison was one of those crass erections and maintenances of human insensitiveness and stupidity principally for which no one primarily was really responsible.

Deals with the devil, Ms. Lane, never go well. That's a given. You will not make one again. Do you understand me? If I have to chain you to a fucking wall to protect you from your own stupidity, I will!" He glared at me. I rattled my chains. "Wrists. Beam. Chained already, Barrons. Come up with a new threat." I glared back.

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he

The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.

Faith of consciousness is freedom Faith of feeling is weakness Faith of body is stupidity. Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity. Hope of consciousness is strength Hope of feeling is slavery Hope of body is disease.

To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.

Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that they are taught. They choose their lords and masters without judging them, with a fatal taste for slavery.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

They were learning the reality of war, these youngsters, getting face to face with the sickening realization that men get killed uselessly because their generals are stupid, so that desperate encounters where the last drop of courage has been given serve the country not at all and make a patriot look a fool.

In the four years of its existence the Army of the Potomac had to atone for the errors of its generals on many a bitter field. This happened so many times—it was so normal, so much the regular order of things for this unlucky army—that it is hardly possible to take the blunders which marred its various battles and rank them in the order of magnitude of their calamitous stupidity.

experience nine times out of ten is merely stupidity hardened into habit.—Well

Ay, ay, cómo culpan los mortales a los dioses!, pues de nosotros, dicen, proceden los males. Pero también ellos por su estupidez soportan dolores más allá de lo que les corresponde.

This place is like the Army: the shark ethic prevails--eat the wounded. In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.