Quotes About Idiocy

I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eighteenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.

It's idiocy, but all war is idiotic, and the most whole-hearted idiot is apt to win.

It would always amaze me, how Frank could make pure idiocy sound logical.

Poor Tom did not know and could not learn that dissembling successfully is one of the creative joys of a businessman. To indicate enthusiasm was to be idiotic.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

One of the advantages of living in the Ice Age would be that there are not very many people around. You're constantly moving, and you have to live by your wits. You can't just have fifteen different kinds of tools, you can't carry them. And no villages—no village idiots. Imagine a world free of idiots!" Idiots, he liked to point out, "don't survive in environments with lions.

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.

Then Indigo and her warrior sisters had come, and they were strong and intelligent and sensible, when they weren't being rash, silly, and brave to the point of blind idiocy.

The New England Jornal of Medicine reports that nine out of ten doctors agree that one out of ten doctors is an idiot.

I'd like to go down and arrest them just for being this stupid." There oughta be a law, no doubt about

These bloody holes can't offer protection from the rain let alone from fat Goering's bombs. They aren't finished and already they've begun to fill with water, sullen and brown. Typical English idiocy. Treating war like a game of cricket. Something to be called off if it rains.