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Quotes About Stupidity

Os loucos são felizes, basta ver como se riem das coisas mais estúpidas que se possa imaginar. Riem felizes do voo de uma borboleta.
~ Unknown
Only in this world of topsy-turvy attitudes could outright stupidity, such as I had displayed, be something that got me high marks. I had an amused glimmering of a notion at that point: If I ever turned out to be a complete and utter fool, I could wind up running the whole kingdom. It was something to consider.
~ Peter David
I guess it really had been brave . . . because it was so bugger-all stupid, and if there was one thing I'd come to realize, ti was that bravery and bugger-all stupidity went hand in hand.
~ Peter David
the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity. She and the rebel angels, the followers of wisdom, have always tried to open minds; the Authority and his churches have always tried to keep them closed.
~ Philip Pullman
Remorse, predictably, was the form taken by her distress, the merciless whipping that is self-condemnation, as if in times as bizarre as these there were a right way and a wrong way that would have been clear to somebody else, as if in confronting such predicaments the hand of stupidity is ever far from guiding anyone.
~ Philip Roth
Anyone with brains understands that he is destined to lead a stupid life because there is no other kind.
~ Philip Roth
There's a plot afoot all right, and I'll gladly name the forces propelling it - hysteria, ignorance, malice , stupidity, hatred, and fear
~ Philip Roth
The banning of books is the greatest statement of both intolerance and stupidity. A country which does this is just giving a lobotomy to itself.
~ David Frawley
Time flies when you're being stupid.
~ David Henry Hwang
i wish there was a thing called stupid tax, which paid for all the stupid things our government does.
~ Unknown
it takes only a modest amount of disruption to create an inordinate amount of mayhem. It's not necessary to wreak all the destruction yourself. Just begin with a fair amount and man's stupidity and selfishness will do the rest.
~ David Maine
I giggled out loud at his stupidity. If anyone knew how to make a bed, it was a faggot.
~ David Sedaris
Lisa and I groaned, cursing our stupidity. Once again we'd been duped. There was nothing worse than spending an afternoon on a golf course. We knew what was in store for us and understood that the next few hours would pass like days or maybe even weeks. Our watches would yawn, the minute and hour hands joining each other in a series of periodic naps.
~ David Sedaris
People at the apex felt unbridled contempt for the people who spent their lives laboring to support their "betters" in the style to which they had become accustomed. After all, if those lesser being had mattered, they'd have been the ones making the decisions, right? The fact that they weren't was directly attributable to their inherent inferiority and general stupidity, not the inequality of opportunity.
~ David Weber
Falderson, he said quietly to Bahzell in passable Navahkan, is as stupid as the day is long. He craned his neck to gaze up at the hradani and shook his head. In fact, he's even stupider than I thought. You, sir, are the biggest damned hradani-no offense-I think I've ever seen.
~ David Weber
You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next. He'll also cut you some slack if you're astonishingly stupid in an amusing fashion. Granny claimed that this explains why uncountable millions of breathtakingly stupid people get along just fine in life.
~ Dean Koontz
Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.
~ Dean Koontz
He'll also cut you some slack if you're astonishingly stupid in an amusing fashion. Granny claimed that this explains why uncountable millions of breathtakingly stupid people get along just fine in life.
~ Dean Koontz
Some of us give up on life with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others—and I am one of those—never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It's not a question of courage. It's something constitutional, an inability to let go. It may be nothing more than life-hungry stupidity.
~ Yann Martel
There may be a lot of kids in the world, but the stupid ones are all stupid in the same way.
~ Unknown
The stupidity/pleasure axis I apply to popular artists: how much pleasure they give versus how stupid one has to become to receive said pleasure.
~ Zadie Smith
cât de stupid e s? speri ca, dac? un b?rbat te dezam?geÈ™te, altul s?-È›i fac? surprize pl?cute, cât e de stupid în general s? speri.
~ Zeruya Shalev
Every compartment in his brain which he had thought to find so full of wit was bolted fast; he grew positively stupid.
~ Honore de Balzac
Je vais vous éclairer, moi, la position dans laquelle vous êtes; mais je vais le faire avec la supériorité d'un homme qui, après avoir examiné les choses d'ici-bas, a vu qu'il n'y avait que deux partis à prendre : ou une stupide obéissance ou la révolte. Je
~ Honore de Balzac