Quotes About Stupidity

Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

Obstinacy and heat in sticking to one's opinions is the surest proof of stupidity. Is there anything so cocksure, so immovable, so disdainful, so contemplative, so solemn and serious as an ass?

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

Hatred is a passion requiring one hundred times the energy of love. Keep it for a cause, not an individual. Keep it for intolerance, injustice, stupidity. For hatred is the strength of the sensitive. Its power and its greatness depend on the selflessness of its use.

There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has longer shelf life.

The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity - and that's just not fair.

A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.

The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenagers are that stupid.

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

America's drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to just how stupid it is -- it'll drive you to use drugs.

To the stupidity of men, " Dakota said, raising a glass. "And my brother, who is their king.

The information paradox- that the more data we have, the stupider we become- has a social corollary, too: that the more frantically we connect, one to another, the more disconnected our relationships become.

So Haymitch, what do you think of the games have one hundred percent more competitors than usual?" asks Caesar. Haymitch shrugs. "I don't see that it makes that much difference. They'll still be one hundred percent as stupid as usual, so I figure my odds will be roughly the same.

Obviously this person's a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous.

Somos seres inconstantes y estúpidos con mala memoria y un don para la autodestrucción.

Fine, than I will not have to blame you for killing my friends with your stupidity. -Haymitch

I don't see that it makes much difference. They'll still be one hundred percent as stupid as usual, so I figure my odds will be roughly the same.

I don't see that it makes much difference. They'll still be 100% as stupid as usual, so I figure my odds will be roughly the same.

Don't be Sad Cause Some People are Real Stupide, their Stupidity will inspire you to be Smart and wise in this world

You are a lucky man; you presented in such a comprehensive way the effect of chance on society and the overestimation of cause and effect. You show how stupid we are to systematically try to explain skills.

By definition, what works cannot be irrational; about every single person I know who has chronically failed in business shares that mental block, the failure to realize that if something stupid works (and makes money), it cannot be stupid.