Quotes About Stupidity
Youth being the excuse for that fortune-cookie love—until it wasn't, until it became pure adult stupidity.
~ Toni Morrison
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you go ahead and be stupid while I enjoy all the merits of your stupidity!
~ Kevork Altounian
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They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them putty in the hands of their rulers, just like always. It was appalling how stupid they were, really, and he could not help lashing into them.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
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In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
~ Konrad Adenauer
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La sua anima-bestia, di ibrido, non era che un vuoto crocicchio, dove le strade del dolore e della conoscenza si intersecavano senza tensione vitale, lontanando nel tempo, verso deserti di stupidità.
~ Carlo Emilio Gadda
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A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
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Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
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No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that: a) people whom one had once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid. b) day after day, with unceasing monotony, one is harassed in one's activities by stupid individuals who appear suddenly and unexpectedly in the most inconvenient places and at the most improbable moments.
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
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The Second law of human stupidity: The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
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Third basic law of human stupidity: A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring loss.
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
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Essentially stupid people are dangerous and damaging because reasonable people find it difficult to imagine and understand unreasonable behaviour.
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
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La Prima Legge Fondamentale della stupidità umana asserisce senza ambiguità di sorta che: Sempre ed inevitabilmente ognuno di noi sottovaluta il numero di individui stupidi in circolazione.
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
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Jotkut saavat perimässä poikkeuksellisen paljon typeryysgeenejä ja kuuluvat näin ollen syntymästään lähtien typerysten eliittiin.
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
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A Primeira Lei Fundamental da Estupidez Humana afirma, sem ambiguidade, que «inevitavelmente, toda a gente subestima sempre o número de indivíduos estúpidos em circulação.»
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
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Within a democratic system, general elections are a most effective instrument to insure the steady maintenance of fraction ? among the powerful. One has to keep in mind that according to the Second Basic Law, the fraction ? of the voting population are stupid people and elections offer to all of them at once a magnificent opportunity to harm everybody else without gaining anything from their action. They do so by contributing to the maintenance of the ? level among those in power.
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
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Most people do not act consistently. Under certain circumstances a given person acts intelligently and under different circumstances the same person will act helplessly. The only important exception to the rule is represented by the stupid people, who normally show a strong proclivity toward perfect consistency in all fields of human endeavors.
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
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It is with sadness that every so often I spend a few hours on the internet, reading or listening to the mountain of stupidity dressed up with the word "quantum.
~ Carlo Rovelli
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ogni volta che come nazione, come gruppo, come continente, o come religione, ripieghiamo in noi stessi nella celebrazione della nostra specifica identità, non stiamo facendo altro che celebrare i nostri limiti e cantare la nostra stupidità. Ogni volta che si apriamo alla diversità e ascoltiamo ciò che è diverso da noi, stiamo contribuendo all'arricchimento e all'intelligenza della razza umana. ...
~ Carlo Rovelli
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When you are talking about stupidity, only the military knows the meaning of the word infinite
~ Carolyn Forché
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Wherever you look there's meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can't live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.
~ Carson McCullers
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It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.
~ Cassandra Clare
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Was it like that with other people? Life went on flowing happily or stupidly like a sea, while here in one spot something tremendous was happening.
~ George Lamming
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It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?
~ George R.R. Martin
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Is that gallantry I smell, or just stupidity? The two scents are much alike, as I recall.
~ George R.R. Martin
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