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Quotes About Stupidity

My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life:~people applaud you incessantly.~love you more than their parents.~give you a daily bread.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command, " said Citizen."Oh my, " said Rigg. "They're handing out the death penalty for that these days?
~ Orson Scott Card, Pathfinder
Even God forgives stupidity. So many married people, heaven would be a ghost town otherwise.
~ Yatin Patel
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
~ Bertrand Russell
Don't name our stupidity, ignorance, stupid rules and lack of skills DESTINY!
~ Maliheh Sadat Razavi
Your fear of looking stupid, Shannon, is holding you back. I think it's time.
~ Shannon Luxford
Few conversations, at any time of life, are more stimulating, more spontaneous and more genuinely original than those long ridiculous talks we all have, when we are very young, late at night about the meaning of life.
~ Jan Morris
God doesn't care about drinking beer. All those rules were made up by people trying to prevent you from doing something really wrong. Drunks make stupid decisions. If you don't drink, there's less chance of doing something stupid.
~ Jana Deleon
I don't know whether to be happy he's made my job so easy," Carter said, "or pissed off that someone that stupid not only roams the earth, but lives in my hometown.
~ Jana Deleon
La gente adopta una fe y se pone muy seria, después solemne. Empieza a creerse cuanto viene amparado o envuelto por esa fe, y entonces se vuelve estúpida.
~ Javier Marías
Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Of course he's good-he's too stupid to be bad
~ Edith Wharton
every now and then I do think life is a crock, there's no getting around it. Basically, it's really just awful. I do think it's stupidity that makes the world go round. And if you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.
~ Edward Gorey
Was he, after all, really a bad man doing a brilliant impersonation of an idiot? It was hard to tell. The connections between stupidity and malice were so tangled and so dense.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
There's a blast of palpable stupidity that comes from our host, like opening the door of a sauna. The best way to contradict him is to let him speak.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits
~ Albert Einstein
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.
~ Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
~ Albert Einstein
Two things are infinite, as far as we know - the universe and human stupidity.
~ Albert Einstein
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
~ Albert Einstein
He should be happy because he can think about the unhappiness of others! He's stupid if he doesn't know other people's unhappiness is theirs, And isn't cured from the outside, Because suffering isn't like running out of ink, Or a trunk not having iron bands! There being injustice is like there being death.
~ Alberto Caeiro
Aquella anormalidad que se traducía en su desapego, en su ausencia de la vida común? Los hombres normales no eran buenos, porque la normalidad se paga siempre, consciente o inconscientemente, a un precio muy caro, con una serie de complicidad, estupidez, vileza, cuando no precisamente de criminalidad.
~ Alberto Moravia
Los hombres normales no eran buenos -siguió pensando- porque la normalidad se pagaba siempre, consciente o inconscientemente, a un precio muy caro y con una serie de complicidades varias, todas tan negativas; de insensibilidad, de estupidez, de vileza, cuando no derechamente de criminalidad
~ Alberto Moravia