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Quotes About Stupidity

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
~ Giacomo Casanova
Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible
~ Edward Tufte
Frustration and I have become good friends. And like any friend who's a bad influence, frustration sometimes makes me do things that are, in retrospect, stupid. - Sirensong
~ Jenna Black
Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity.
~ William Shenstone
The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.
~ Tom Coburn
The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.
~ Octave Mirbeau
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
~ Gustave Flaubert
To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness.
~ Julian Barnes
The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
~ Czeslaw Milosz
The major force in world history is sheer dumbness.
~ Eric Wolf
Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.
~ Talib Kweli
We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
~ Wendell Berry
Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing.
~ Glen Duncan
The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.
~ Redd Foxx
All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another.
~ William S. Burroughs
Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
As far as humanity is concerned the origin of stupidity is itself.
~ William C. Brown
The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
~ Harlan Ellison
The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.
~ Barney Frank
I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.
~ Chris Rock
Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.
~ Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty
And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid.
~ Mira Grant
All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind.
~ Veronica Roth, Divergent
The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.
~ Elbert Hubbard