Quotes About Stupidity

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Don't assign to stupidity what might be due to ignorance. And try not to assume your opponent is the ignorant one — until you can show it isn't you.

Raphael watched, and gradually he began to understand them. At first it was not even a theory, but rather a kind of intuition. He found that he could look at any one of them and almost smell the impending crisis. That was the key word—crisis. At first it seemed too dramatic a term to apply to situations resulting from their bumbling mismanagement of their lives or deliberate wrongheaded stupidity, but they themselves reacted as if these situations were in fact crises.

There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.

I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion .

Troeltsch's so dumb he thinks a manila folder's a Filipino contortionist.

The history of culture indicates that stupidity is the twin sister of reason, it grows most luxuriously not on the soil of virgin ignorance, but on soil cultivated by the sweat of doctors and professors.

La estupidez podía ser también un estado de gracia compartido. La estupidez era una carcajada múltiple e irrefrenable.

I abhor the human stupidity and vanity that takes pride in forcing tigers, lions, and leopards to sit nicely side by side. It reminds me of the government choreography that displays brightly garbed minorities in a parade, minorities granted a crumb of political autonomy in exchange for providing an optical simulation of cultural diversity in their country of residence. But wild animals (as opposed to humans) form groups according to species to enjoy specific benefits.

But, as our friend Samuel Butler says, he that is stupid in little will also be stupid in much.

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.

Men. <...> They're idiots. It's like they all take a vow of stupidity or something.

Dans la stupidité il est un sérieux qui, mieux orienté, pourrait multiplier la somme des chefs-d'oeuvre.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

The courage to put an end to war, to see the abysmal stupidity of it, is certainly no less than that needed to start one.

Stupidity is doomed, therefore, to cringe at every syllable of wisdom.

A man with some evil design, would he not be likely to speak well of that stupidity which was blind to his depravity, and malign that intelligence from which it might not be hidden?

Christ died to free us from the burden of our sin, but he never, so far as she could see, lifted a finger to free us from our stupidity.

I think you impressed him with the sheer force of your stupidity.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.

I had been right in the first place. Getting involved with politicians is complete stupidity.

You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

Il faut un double soleil pour éclairer le fond de la bêtise humaine.

Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.

I spent the rest of the workday on routine paperwork, snarling at misplaced files and seething at the stupidity of everyone else's report writing--when did Grammar die?