Quotes About Stupidity

If you want to take part in the "war" against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.

Tertuliano de que cuanto mayor es la estupidez, más fuerte es la creencia en ella, que la fe alcanza su cota máxima cuando sus enseñanzas son menos asimilables por la razón.

Oh, how the pillars of lust can crumble under the weight of stupidity.

Which goes to show you, right there, the difference between sailors and marines: marines are fucking stupid. Running when you don't have to.

You cannot change the world with ideas. People with few ideas are less likely to make mistakes; they follow what everyone else does and are no trouble to anyone; they're successful, make money, find good jobs, enter politics, receive honours; they become famous writers, academics, journalists. Can anyone who is so good at looking after their own interests really be stupid? I'm the stupid one, the one who wanted to go tilting at windmills.

No está mal. Ya estamos en el umbral en el que sospechamos que algo no funciona, pero es necesario un esfuerzo para demostrar qué es lo que no cuadra y por qué. El estúpido es muy insidioso. Al imbécil se le reconoce enseguida (y al cretino ni qué decir), mientras que el estúpido razona casi como uno, sólo que con una desviación infinitesimal.

Se publican muchos libros escritos por estúpidos, porque a primera vista son muy convincentes. El redactor editorial no está obligado a reconocer al estúpido.

Claro, y Dios se divierte como un loco. Decidió ser impensable sólo para demostrar que Anselmo y Gaunilo eran estúpidos. Qué motivo más sublime para la creación, qué me digo, para el acto mismo en virtud del cual Dios determina su propio ser. Todo para poder denunciar la estupidez cósmica.

I am fascinated by stupidity] because normal intelligence is boring. Two plus two makes four - finished. You have no possibilities! Stupidity is infinite. Two plus two can make billions of different numbers.

I knew there was something that separated me from Ferdinand and the life of the bush about me. And it was because I had no means in my day-to-day life of asserting this difference, of exhibiting my true self, that I fell into the stupidity of exhibiting my things.

The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

Tempus edax homo edacior; which I willingly thus translate; Time is blind, man is stupid.

Pues yo, cuando leo que los cristianos dicen que la muerte es hermosa y que no hay por qué temerla, me indigno. Me parece algo estúpido y arrogante. La muerte no es hermosa. Es patética y vacía. Y tenemos que aceptarlo.

at the end of the day, men are men. We have to kill their stupidity with kindness like only we can.

But at the end of the day, men are men. We have to kill their stupidity with kindness like only we can.

Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.

Life is beautiful and life is stupid. This is, in fact, widely regarded as a universal rule not less inviolable than the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Uncertainty Principle, and No Post on Sundays. As long as you keep that in mind, and never give more weight to one than the other, the history of the galaxy is a simple tune with lyrics flashed on-screen and a helpful, friendly bouncing disco ball of all-annihilating flames to help you follow along.

Only the uncool have the requisite alone time to advance their species. And so it was that, eventually, between drawing meatship schematics in the dirt and dreaming of a world where she didn't hate literally everyone, the shiest and most sensitive of Yurtmaks began to plan the most ambitious massacre in the history of the galaxy: the murder of stupidity.

You have already heard the First General Fact: Life is beautiful and life is stupid. It goes on to add: You can only ever fix one of these at a time, and wouldn't it be nice if anyone could agree on which one is the bigger problem?

It's a law, a law of the universe. Like gravity or stupidity or how a minor chord always sounds sad.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

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

Lorsque la bêtise gifle l'intelligence, l'intelligence a le droit de se conduire bêtement.

La stupidità, quando viene ad assumere un'esagerata intensità, diventa anarchia