Quotes About Stupidity

That's what Ender has to understand. There really is evil in the world, and wickedness, and every brand of stupidity. There's meanness and heartlessness and... I don't even know which of them is me. - Hyrum Graff

Why are they so stupid?' asked Human. 'Not to know the truth when they hear it?' 'They aren't stupid,' said the Speaker. 'This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe, and those we never think to question. They never thought to question the idea that the original Speaker for the Dead died three thousand years ago, even though they know how star travel prolongs life.

But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind.

They feel very stupid and strange, the things going through your mind. You're making us very tired, with all your thinking of stupid imaginary impossible things.

it's for people like that, short-sighted, suicidal people, that we're pushing Ender to the edge of human endurance.' 'I think you underestimate Ender.' 'But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?' 'Sir, those words sound like treason.' 'It was black humor.

Irony is wasted on the stupid

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Fixed fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity: General George S. Patton.

There is no need, Capricorn finally began, raising his voice, for me to explain to most of you why the three prisoners you see there are to be punished. For the rest, it is enough for me to say it is for treachery, loose talk, and stupidity. One may argue, of course, over whether or not stupidity is a crime deserving of death. I think it is, for it can have exactly the same consequences as treachery.

Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.

Falling in love is not the most stupid thing that people do," Einstein scribbled on the letter, "but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.

Everyone must, from time to time, make a sacrifice on the altar of stupidity, to please the deity and mankind.

No sean tan severos conmigo —les respondió a los Born—. Todo el mundo debe, de vez en cuando, hacer un sacrificio ante el altar de la estupidez, a fin de agradar al dios de la humanidad. Y yo lo he hecho a fondo con mi artículo.

There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants.

Krauthammer's razor (with apologies to Occam): In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.

We was half stupid, a third lucky, and three-quarters ferocious.

Money makes people stupid. They don't have to work as hard as people who don't have money. That's why the smart people who do have money mostly use it for one thing… They use it to make sure the people without it don't get any more.

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?

Yes it's pink. That's how you know it's for ladies. That might be the stupidest thing I've ever heard you say.

I saw this on TV," June Sibley said. "He'll go in there and get the guy to let the girl go and stay in himself. Oh, my God, he's so brave." "Oh, my ass. He's so stupid," Del Franklin said.

While airports are particularly good places to hunt for Indian stupidity, many other Indian processes are retarded too.

Idiocy flows uphill towards power.

The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles.

In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.