Quotes About Idiocy

The sum total of stupid people is somewhere around the population of the planet. Plus one.

A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.

Fanaticism was so popular. There had to be a reason for that, didn't there? Some vast reward to the end of thinking, some great bliss to the blessing of idiocy.

This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.

The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

Y no me importa que la alegría haya pasado de moda, a lo mejor soy una idiota, pero los otros también son unos idiotas, con esa moda suya del escepticismo, no tengo ningún motivo para cambiar mi idiotez por la de ellos, no quiero que mi vida se parta por la mitad, quiero que sea una sola vida, una sola desde el principio hasta el final...

Some people were genetically predisposed to be brilliant; other poor souls were destined to be idiots.

What kind of idiot would knowingly date a girl named Knives?

At least if I was picking guys up in fits of drunken idiocy, they were not only handsome, but also even mildly clever.

This is what happens when you put a moron in the intelligence unit: he gets even dumber.

The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid.

Waiting for the end of innocence. And an idiot is waiting for the end of idiocy too, but he's ugly doing it. So each ends himself in the meeting, in exchange for a merging.

If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one.

There are times when you can't do the sensible thing, when you can't act like a responsible adult at all; you just have to do whatever insane thing comes into your head. When bad people do it they end up murderers, when good people do it they end up heroes, and when the rest of do it we end up looking like total idiots. But when's that ever stopped us?

What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak.

Sanzo to Gojyo: And give me my gun back. I don't want your idiocy getting all over it.

Finnie kicked a packet of washing powder. "Why am I surrounded by morons? Did I tick the wrong bloody box for room service? I wanted scrambled eggs on toast, but they delivered a family-sized bag of idiots !

Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the soldiers, here comes the food, go go go... Rush Limbaugh told his multi-millions of listeners that Obama only did that to gain favour with black people in America. This is the kind of idiocy that I have to deal with in my country.

You believe what it's possible to believe, not what you want to believe. Unless you're an idiot, in which case it's the other way around.

La malvagità presuppone un certo spessore morale, forza di volontà e intelligenza. L'idiota invece non si sofferma a ragionare, obbidisce all'istinto, come un animale nella stalla, convinto di agire in nome del bene e di avere sempre ragione.

En el fondo, el mundo, desde dondequiera que lo miremos, se compone de insoportabilidad. El mundo nos resulta cada vez más insoportable. El que soportemos lo insoportable es la capacidad para el tormento y el dolor, durante toda la vida, de cada uno, hay en ello algunos elementos irónicos, un idiotismo irracional, y todo lo demás es calumnia.

I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will -- and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. Gene Roddenberry

There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has longer shelf life.

I might be tweeting a lot of things in the future, some of which will be absolute idiocy.