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Quotes About Stupidity

The longer Cersei waits, the angrier she'll become, and anger makes her stupid. I much prefer angry and stupid to composed and cunning.
~ George R.R. Martin
I much prefer angry and stupid to composed and cunning.
~ George R.R. Martin
Te llamaré Sospecha... tus compañeros de camada serán Duda, Hostilidad, Ingratitud y Estupidez.
~ George R.R. Martin
There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar, anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius with its omnipresent and fierce stupidity
~ George Santayana
And now I wish I hadn't been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!" "No, no!" said Alverstoke soothingly. "Nobody could be as stupid as Endymion!
~ Georgette Heyer
As the psychologist Carl Jung once said, 'If our civilization were to perish, it would be due more to stupidity than to evil.
~ Gerald Brittle
We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.
~ Bernard Barton
If a man didn't make sense, the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation, for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.
~ J. K. Galbraith
Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.
~ Friedrich von Schiller
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
~ Issac Asimov
Humans were a lot of things- bad drivers, nosy, dangerous because so many of them were stupid and there were to many of them on the planet.
~ J. R. Ward
It all jibed, and the books would close on Jasper as death by misadventure. Unofficially, Eve labeled it death by stupidity, but there wasn't a place on the sheet for that particular observation. - Lt. Eve Dallas on a drunk fall off the roof
~ J.D. Robb
And we don't hit people when they say stupid things. Because they're allowed to, it's not against the law. People can be as stupid as they want, and we just ignore them. We can say, 'You're wrong,' or maybe, 'You're an idiot,' but that's it. We don't hit 'em, we just ignore 'em. Right?
~ J.D. Robb
The thing I regret most about my life are those inane photos of me with icons. They used to come down here and dress me up, and I just tolerated it. It's my fault. But I shouldn't have done it. They literally brought down costumes, candles, and icons! It was unbelievable stupidity.
~ John Tavener
Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul Wherein the Beast ravens in its own avidity?
~ Richard Eberhart
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.
~ Albert Einstein
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
~ Voltaire
Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Stupidity is sufficient unto itself. Wisdom can never learn enough.
~ Mechthild of Magdeburg
Against a stupidity that is in fashion, no wisdom compensates.
~ Theodor Fontane
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
~ Jean Giraudoux
Only ignorance excuses stupidity
~ Nalini Singh, Angels' Blood
Dame Salome, with one of those flashes of worldly wisdom which at times emerge from very stupid well-meaning people
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner