Quotes About Stupidity

Evil and stupidity often go together, however, and arrogance is the offspring of their marriage

all-seeing and all-knowing. Evil and stupidity often go together, however, and arrogance is the offspring of their marriage

You can't burgulate a forgotten, empty house," he said, horrified at my stupidity.

We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.

I'm no pessimist. I don't loathe art because I couldn't live without devoting all my time to it. I love it as the only end of my life. Everything I do connected with it gives me intense pleasure. But still, I don't see why the whole world should be taken up with art, demand its credentials, and on that subject give free rein to its own stupidity. Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters.' -Picasso

Always perplexed, we are unable to stop. This is called stupidity. While we say that the character of the common man has infinite variety, it is all just a matter of the muddiness of his ch'i: how shallow or deep, how thick or thin.

Though it always comes as a surprise to intellectuals, there are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to commit.

Abner is not far from any one of us. We share an Abner-nature that harbors sin's stupidity, perversity, and twistedness. Let Abner preach to you. Let him tell you that it is possible to know the truth but not embrace the truth, to quote the truth but not submit to the truth, to hold the truth and yet assault the truth. And so Abner joins all the other anti-christs who strut around and say, 'I will be king' (1 Kings 1:5).

Over a third of the Newenhan population was under eighteen,which didn't make his job any easier, the hormonally challenged being terminally and all too often fatally prone to acts of stupidity.

Stupidity is the monocle of Intelligence.

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of changing their views to fit the facts, they try to change the facts to fit their views.

but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you're a genius.

T]hose who refuse to consider what they do are cloaked in the shadow of stupidity, but they enjoy the shade. It is cool and comfortable there.

Ignorance means we didn't have the necessary information; stupidity means we had the necessary information but misused it.

And therefore a giant hammer of pure stupidity lashed out of the screen and felled me again. I lay mewling, clutching my head with my sweaty hands, whimpering for my Mommy to make it stop. MAKE IT STOP! But it did not stop. It. Did. Not. Stop. -- The Desolation of Tolkien

Being with someone who doesn't love you isn't called loyalty, it's called stupidity.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

I deplore the death and destruction she [Hillary Clinton] caused-stupidity.

Never trust a man who teaches about death but yet had no real experience at all about it.

Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

It's not getting any better for the American people. It seems to be getting worse. That's predictable; education is a cycle. Stupidity breeds more stupidity.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

How stupid these people were, coming into my office unarmed.

He thought of firing a shot into the lock for the sheer cinematic stupidity of the gesture.