Stupidity Quotations

I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children.

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

A great deal of stupidity has chipped away at the massive advantages of Western civilization, which could terminally decline if it remains on the current path. But these problems can be solved - and swiftly - if the right leaders emerge.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Along with racial equality and the late bloom of women's rights, future generations will have to explain how, in the past, gays were misunderstood and publicly humiliated for loving each other, and, eventually, how they stood together and conquered stupidity and hypocritical hatred, and fought their way out of marginalization.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.

Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?

The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.

Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

What Democrats call 'nuanced,' most people refer to as 'stupidity.'

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.

Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

It saddens me to see the reality-television shows that are getting so much fanfare that are a celebration of stupidity and the degradation of women. And those women are consistently wearing too short, too tight dresses. I hope the trend of aging gracefully returns.

I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

I cannot abide stupidity, in myself or in others.

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile.

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity.

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.

People get a kick out of my stupidity.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Here's how my brain works: It's stupidity, followed by self-hatred, and then further analysis.

I giggled out loud at his stupidity. If anyone knew how to make a bed, it was a faggot.

And now, the Superstore - unequaled in size, unmatched in variety, unrivaled inconvenience.

Murphy's golden rule: Whoever has the gold, makes the rules.

For people who like peace and quiet: a phoneless cord.

Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.

I tried sniffing Coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose.

Sign outside a country shop: We buy junk and sell antiques.

Sign at a New England church: Will the last person to leave please see that the perpetual light is extinguished?

Sign at a Tennessee highway: When this sign is under water, this road is impassable.

Toaster: A gift that every member of the family appreciates. Automatically burns toast.

Too many rocks in the mountains.

I called a company and asked to speak to Bob. The person who answered said, "Bob is on vacation. Would you like to hold?

A small deer came into my camp and stole my bag of pickles. Is there a way I can get reimbursed? Please call.

Instead of a permit system or regulations, the Forest Service needs to reduce worldwide population growth to limit the number of visitors to wilderness.

Found a smoldering cigarette left by a horse.

Trails need to be reconstructed. Please avoid building trails that go uphill.

Too many bugs and leeches and spiders and spiderwebs. Please spray the wilderness to rid the area of these pests.

Several years ago we had an intern who was none too swift. One day he was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?" "Just use copier machine paper," she told him. With that, the intern took his last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five blank copies.

Chair lifts need to be in some places so that we can get to wonderful views without having to hike to them.

This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.

It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.

Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity.

Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said, 'but sometimes there's a fine line between courage and stupidity.

There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.

Man has a dark side, yes, and it is called stupidity.

It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.

There are two fools in every marketplace; one asks too little, one asks too much.

The term biodynamics - push it aside, it is verbosity. It doesn't matter a bit. One has to use words to make headings, that's all it is. It's rather like the stupidity in a picture gallery today where you have to write under it what the scene or person is. It is equally as nonsensical as that. Therefore to talk about biodynamic gardening, biodynamic horticulture, biodynamic agriculture and the French intensive system is merely a horrible heading of terminology.

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

I'm allergic to stupidity.

They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and of the heartbroken desire to see a place made whole again.

If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.