Quotes About Stupidity

a inteligência não protege de nada, nem sequer da estupidez.

Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing . . .

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

Mrs. Banks: [singing] Though we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid.

The truth is that we've always been greedy and stupid. We have no imagination, and the only reason we've survived this long is that we produce just enough smart people to keep us going.

The partisan clings to his little, fleeting, flimsy opinion, and thinks it the greatest thing in the world. He is so in love with his own conclusion (which is only a form of self love), that he thinks all men ought to agree with him, and he regards men as more or less stupid who do not see as he sees, while he praises the good judgement of those who are one with him in his view. Such a man cannot have knowledge, cannot have truth.

Why should we fight them when their own greed and stupidity's destroying them. Eh?

It is bad manners to say that you will piss on anyone. Very bad. It is bad manners and very stupid to say that you will piss on anyone when you are unarmed. It is very bad manners and even more stupid to say that you will piss on anyone when you are unarmed, powerless, and not prepared to allow your friends and family or whomever to perish first.

He said that only stupid men love danger, but you love danger and you're not stupid.

And what I would say now is, yes, if a state enacted a law permitting flogging, it is immensely stupid, but it is not unconstitutional. A lot of stuff that's stupid is not unconstitutional.

When I left NSA, it was with an understanding that you can never underestimate the power of large numbers of stupid people.

Could there be a better answer to the stupidity of Karl Marx than millions of workers individually sharing in the ownership of the means of production.

Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.

Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart.

We wait upon finite minds to validate infinite things— this is evidence of human stupidity.

Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex.

Living in a stupid country is living in a marsh! You are surrounded by the reptiles and the alligators! Refusing hell is the best path to eliminate the hell!

Stupidity is doomed, therefore, to cringeat every syllableof wisdom.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.