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Quotes About Stupidity

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
~ Unknown
You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays. The things these scribblers write!
~ Unknown
The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.
~ Octave Mirbeau
God in His infinite wisdom Did not make me very wise— So when my actions are stupid They hardly take God by surprise
~ Unknown
There are moments in your life when you feel the weight of your stupidity as an unbearable thing. You hardly believe that the thoughts you've had and the beliefs you've held are actually your own, yet they have been, and you know, with the full certainty of religious conviction, that you are flawed in a deep and terrible way.
~ Unknown
most people are truly idiots, and that it is human stupidity that is ultimately responsible for introducing sadness into the world.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please
~ Oliver Goldsmith
What superficiality—and what stupidity—there is in trying to depict in a pretty manner things which one has thought pretty. The masters through their subjective perceptions created beauty out of trivialities. They did not hide their interest even in things which were nauseatingly ugly, but soaked themselves in the pleasure of depicting them.
~ Osamu Dazai
O quizá lo que llamamos el Mal sea, en su origen, la Estupidez.
~ Osamu Dazai
I'm the fool who doesn't know the limits of stupidity.
~ Osamu Dazai
What superficiality- and what stupidity- there is in trying to depict in a pretty manner things which one has thought pretty. The masters through their subjective perceptions created beauty out of trivialities. They did not hide their interest on things which were nauseatingly ugly, but soaked themselves in the pleasure of depicting them. In other words, they seemed not to rely in the least on the misconceptions of others.
~ Osamu Dazai
I can forgive the evil in a human being, but I cannot pardon the foolishness in him. Stupidity is the greatest sin.
~ Osamu Dazai
What superficiality - and what stupidity - there is in trying to depict in a pretty manner things which one has thought pretty.
~ Osamu Dazai
Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.
~ Oscar Wilde
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.
~ Oscar Wilde
These comments have been offered by those who abuse the privilege of being stupid, but I thank them for their interest.
~ Otto Penzler
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Honey, if we could cure stupid, I'd be out of a job.
~ Pamela Clare
Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.
~ Patricia Briggs
He was the thing the world had suffered from most in her four billion years of existence: a stupid man with power.
~ Patrick Ness
He was the thing the world had suffered from most in her four billion years of existence: a stupid man with power. When the lights of the universe went out one day, standing over the plug, having pulled it despite all warnings, would be a man like Deputy Kelby.
~ Patrick Ness
She's obviously stupid for you. And you're just plain stupid, so it's a great match.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
You can only feel so much pity for an idiot".
~ Patrick Rothfuss