Stupidity Quotations | Page 3

Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads.

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?

Beware your inner idiot. Success and stupidity don't mix. Your boss's stupidity is only half the problem. Your own stupidity can easily complete the disaster.

Convict him of stupidity for not giving special treatment, but don't convict him of rape.

During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails. - AP report describing Fresno State basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian

It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity

Stupidity - Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win AND never win are idiots.

Stupidity and mistakes aside, I think we had a great shot at winning. We're stuck in a really tough spot. You need a win, you want a win and we just didn't do it.

Anytime in the game if you hit a guy from behind into the boards it should be a penalty. It was more their stupidity than a call going in our favor.

You're still half a child, but you're getting in these adult situations with a sense of wonder and a sense of stupidity as well. I see it as a real universal suburban record.

It's unfortunate the bears had to be put down out of the stupidity of the parent or parents involved. That's the worst aspect of this very unfortunate situation.

It was a piece of stupidity on my part,

I've had a terrific battle with common sense, and finally stupidity won.

They were trying to evade a member of this department that is trained to teach police officers emergency vehicle operation. It was an exercise in stupidity that ended up as an exercise in futility.

Against stupidity the very Gods themselves toil in vain

I realised the stupidity of what was going on, there was no concentration on key revenue streams, it was all about land grab and not about money.

They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it.

I didn't realize I was in a Buddhist temple. - Al Gore, former U.S. Vice President when asked about his illegal fundraising activities that took place in a Buddhist temple.

She's quite intelligent, in my stupidity.

I'm prepared to concede that stupidity does not help survival. One must after all understand not to poke a tiger with a stick. But intelligence leads to curiosity, and curiosity has never been a quality that helps one pour his or her genes into the pool. The truth must lie somewhere between. Whatever the reason, it is clearly mediocrity, at best, that lives and breeds.

Courage is perhaps our most admirable trait. The man, or woman, who possesses it is able to plunge ahead, despite dangers, despite warnings, despite hazards of all kinds, to attack the task at hand. Often, it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

Genius and stupidity never stray from their respective paths; talent wanders to and fro, following every light.

Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.

Hot oil! We need hot oil!... Forget the water balloons!

They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

Mitt der Dummheit k a« mpfen G o« tter selbst vergebens. Even the gods themselves struggle in vain against stupidity.

Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts They still think they're the gods of antiquity If something you missed didn't even exist It was just an ideal is it such a surprise?

There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.

There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world.

Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are mentally ill. Check 3 friends. If they are okay, you're it.

We aim to please... You aim too, please.

Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.

Don't cater to stupidity.

There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike.

Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

I knew that was coming. That's another stupidity. The people who use the term don't even know the meaning. They use it to refer to photographs they believe are loosely organized, or casually made, whatever you want to call it. Whatever terms you like. The fact is, when they're talking about snapshots they're talking about the family album picture, which is one of the most precisely made photographs.

Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]

American gentlemen are a cross between English and French men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest than Frenchmen, and less manly, shy, and rough, than Englishmen. Their brains are finer and flimsier, their bodies less robust and vigorous than ours. We are the finer animals, and they the subtler spirits. Their intellectual tendency is to excitement and insanity, and ours to stagnation and stupidity.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

Here's one thing I never say anymore: These people can't be that stupid, can they?

To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.

Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.

A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.

Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.

The most abundant element in the Universe is stupidity

Two things are universal: Hydrogen and stupidity

You can't argue with stupidity.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.

The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.

Do you know what chaos stands for? C-H-A-O-S stands for Critical Hate And Overwhelming Stupidity.

If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

I'm a member of no party. I have no ideology. I'm a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle between science and reason and the barbarism, superstition and stupidity that's all around us.

There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement of IQ.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.

Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.

Like the characters in Chekhov, they have no reserves -– you learn the most intimate secrets. You get an impression of a world peopled by eccentrics, of odd professions, almost incredible stupidities, and, to balance them, amazing endurances.

The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.

Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot

There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity.

A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.

Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.

How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they can be extinguished by ignorance, stupidity and arrogance?

Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.

The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.

Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres!

It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us and to oppress us with impunity, will now agree, with good grace, to be our equals.

I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in.

It is of first-rate importance to notice from the start that stupidity is not the same thing, or the same sort of thing, as ignorance. There is no incompatibility between being well-informed and being silly, and a person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.

It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity

Scientists believe that the universe is made of hydrogen because they claim it's the most plentiful ingredient. I claim that the most plentiful ingredient is stupidity.

Their stupidity does not amaze me, its when they're smart that amazes me. It's baffling whenever you find someone who's smart - incredible. Soon you'll have zoos for such things.

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

In the end, this world will go under because of the stupidity of people.

Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.

You can't legislate stupidity.

You can't legislate against stupidity.

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.

Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.

If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.

Stupidity is a luxury and you will find time and time and time and again that those who are overwhelmingly on the left are those who can afford to be.

The brilliant Schiller was wrong in his Joan of Arc when he said against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. It is actually by means of the gods that we make our stupidity and gullibility into something ineffable.

A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack of wisdom, fantasies. At the same time, that's where my creativity can be found. If I tried to control it and make it more mature, it wouldn't be good at all. It'd be uninteresting, without any vivacity.