Quotes About Stupidity

Superintendent Stanislaus Oates of the Central Investigation Department, New Scotland Yard, was one of those happy people who retain throughout their lives a childlike belief in a sharp dividing line between that which is wrong and that which is right. It is this peculiarity which is common to all the great English policemen and is probably the basis of their reputation both for integrity and for stupidity.

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.

Angelo was a grown man, and here was one thing he was quite free to decide for himself, and yet he was ready to let others make up his mind for him...that could only be stupidity.

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Try to manage your anger since people can't manage their stupidity.

Stupidity is like art. Everyone can do it, but only the truly gifted are masters at it.

A word to the wise isn't necessary,it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

You got to be a stupid motherf*cker to get fired on your day off. -Smokey

I was dating a guy for a while because he told me he had an incurable disease. I didn't realize it was stupidity.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

In this messianic vision, machine intelligence will come to redeem the universe of its incalculable stupidity. He takes a goal-oriented approach to cosmology, imposing upon the universe itself a kind of corporate project-management structure, composed of a series of key deliverables across deep time.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

Stupid is never that entertaining. You can be stupid and sexy, stupid and funny but he's just plain stupid. That is not remarkable, that's what I mean.

I just think [Gangster Party Line] is funny and stupid and all the dudes in it are real dudes. It's just a funny construction.

We can't against human stupidity. Because they are too many and too dangerous.

We really need to find a cure for stupidity, and fast! I've heard it's contagious...No wonder why there's so many of them.

By studying human history, we can realize how much of human stupidity has fallen on fertile ground. Is gravity guilty for such an occurrence too?