Quotes About Stupidity

That asshat couldn't think his way through a fart without coaching.

It was his knowledge of his own willful stupidity that had brought on his irritation

In crowds it is stupidity and not mother-wit that is accumulated," Gustave Le Bon noted in his 1895 classic on crowd psychology.

It was far from stupid, and therefore dangerously persuasive.

Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.

Common sense argued that she shouldn't attribute to malice what could perfectly well be explained by stupidity,

an act of violence based solely on an individual's racial origin is as abhorrent a crime as it is possible to commit, not least because of its futility and utter stupidity. It is a crime for those at the bottom of the gene pool. The work of morons.

Still, to paraphrase what John Stuart Mill said about the stupidity of the Tories, while not all people who claim to be politically incorrect are assholes, it's exactly the sort of thing an asshole is apt to say. (183)

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

Desarrollar la frase: así como aun los actos más ruines y vergonzosos requieren de cierta inteligencia y cierto talento, así también los actos más grandiosos requieren de una cierta insensibilidad que en otras circunstancias se llama estupidez.

To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

I account for morality as an accidental capability produced, in its boundless stupidity, by a biological process that is normally opposed to the expression of such a capability.

Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of 'em are stupider than that.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

How could he have been so stupid, so blind? David pictured after Goliath could be no one but the biblical David, a special individual. He was not content to portray one man; he was seeking universal man, Everyman, all of whom,from the beginning of time, had faced a decision to strike for freedom

Schiller. A German dramatist of three centuries ago. In a play about Joan of Arc, he said, 'Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.' I'm no god and I'll contend no longer.

Schiller. A German dramatist of three centuries ago. In a play about Joan of Arc, he said, 'Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.

El hombre más irreversiblemente estúpido es aquel que ignora su sabiduría.

It's really disheartening, the universal stupidity. I think that I wouldn't grieve at mankind's suicide through sheer evilness of heart, or through mere recklessness. There's something so damned undignified at going to destruction through sheer thickheaded stupidity. What's the use of being men if that's how you have to die.

It's really disheartening, the universal stupidity. I think that I wouldn't grieve at mankind's suicide through sheer evilness of heart, or through mere recklessness. There's something so damned undignified at going to destruction through sheer thickheaded stupidity. What's the use of being men if that's how you have to die.

É realmente muito desanimadora essa estupidez universal. Acho que eu não sofreria tanto se o suicídio da humanidade resultasse apenas de pura maldade de coração ou por mera inconsequência. Mas é de uma falha tão desgraçada de dignidade, que estamos a ponto de nos destruir como fruto da mais obtusa e impenetrável estupidez.

to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect—but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.

He was not one of those dull-witted, unimaginative men of nerveless meat who were too stupid ever to be afraid