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Quotes About Stupidity

God Almighty's outcasts, I call them. Among them, I grant you, is virtue in all the flower of its stupidity, but poverty is no less their portion. At this moment, I think I see the long faces those good folk would pull if God played a practical joke on them and stayed away at the Last Judgment.
~ Honore de Balzac
All wisdom is plagiarism; only stupidiy is original.
~ Unknown
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot.
~ Iain M. Banks
And Texas. Well, as they say: "everything's bigger in Texas." Including the depth and breath of their stupidity. If, during a drought, your governor appeals to the citizenry to pray for rain, and a mob doesn't show up to physically remove him from office for being too goddamn dumb to govern, you leave yourself open to ridicule. As you do if you try to put creationism on equal footing with evolution in your school textbooks.
~ Ian Gurvitz
The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?
~ Idries Shah
El hombre más estúpido que he conocido, tenía un dicho favorito. Era: "¿Qué te crees que soy: estúpido... o qué?
~ Idries Shah
Si quieres alimentar tu estupidez, intenta con un poquito de avaricia.
~ Idries Shah
I'd say the depths of his stupidity have yet to be plumbed, and yours is comin' up fast on the inside turn.
~ Craig Johnson
Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.
~ Jim Butcher
He's Black Council, I said. Or maybe stupid, Ebenezar countered. I thought about it. Not sure which is scarier. Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day.
~ Jim Butcher
stupid is way more dangerous than actual evil, if only because there's so much more of it around.
~ Jim Butcher
We're stunning—and we need to be, if we're to make a good impression and accomplish our goals. It's vain, it's stupid, and it's shallow, but that makes it no less true.
~ Jim Butcher
When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.
~ Jim Butcher
I had just been defeated by a literal hallucination built from denial and the most determined and pettily self-interested stupidity I had ever encountered.
~ Jim Butcher
Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day.
~ Jim Butcher
One question: would you have called buying pastel linen dresses for Saigon a mark of 'privilege'? Or would you have called it more a mark of bone stupidity?
~ Joan Didion
Everyones entitled to be stupid but you are abusing the privilege.
~ Unknown
No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.
~ Unknown
Rules are just helpful guidelines for stupid people who cant make up their minds. - Greg House
~ Unknown
Don't make yourself look like the stupid one in the relationship that you know it will never work out.
~ Unknown
Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)
~ Vince Flynn
Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Mitch Rapp)
~ Vince Flynn