Stupidity Quotations | Page 4

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot touch the body of Life. Life is marvellous. I want to be deeply rooted in it - to live - to expand - to breathe in it - to rejoice - to share it. To give and to be asked for Love.

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison

For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.

You can't go to Windows Update and get a patch for stupidity.

There is no patch for stupidity.

Most of our suffering comes from sin and stupidity; it is, nevertheless, very real, and growth can occur with real repentance. But the highest source of suffering appears to be reserved for the innocent who undergo divine tutorial training.

All happiness is a work of art: the smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it, the slightest stupidity brutalizes it.

Why do most people think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

Mass democracy guarantees stupidity. Masses of people, even if they're individually intelligent, can only act stupidly.

Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".

The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.

I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!

Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when you don't know anything, not even as much as you did when you were younger, and you don't even have a philosophy about all the things you don't know, the way you did when you were twenty or would again when you were thirty-eight.

A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.

Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?

Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.

To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.

Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

Nobody likes to offer stupidity as an excuse.

Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity.

Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.

The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

Life is a flux, nothing abides. Still we are such fools, we go on clinging. If change is the nature of life, then clinging is stupidity, because your clinging is not going to change the law of life. Your clinging is only going to make you miserable. Things are bound to change; whether you cling or not does not matter. If you cling you become miserable: you cling and they change, you feel frustrated. If you don`t cling they still change, but then there is no frustration because you were perfectly aware that they are bound to change. This is how things are, this is the suchness of life.

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh,” Flamel said quietly. “And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer. Sophie,” he added, without looking at her.

My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarden, I always thought that being able to read provided lightness, help to dispel darkness, ignorance and stupidity.

Vik? You ready? (Devyn) Your stupidity is what I live for, Captain. (Vik)

That wasn't love; that was stupidity.

Why are you helping me? (Fury) I don’t know. Apparently I’m having a moment of extreme stupidity. (Angelia)

I’m going. But before I do, let me congratulate all of you on your stupidity. (Fury)

Oh. Sorry about the muzzle. But it was necessary to protect you from your own stupidity. (Thorn)

You asked my opinion and I gave it. Of course you have to remember that if I’d been on the island with Gilligan, he’d have been killed ten minutes into the first episode. Where I come from, incompetence and stupidity are reasons for justifiable homicide. (Varyk)

I want your opinion on the best way to proceed. (Eli) I’d start by killing your son and his crew of idiots before their stupidity spreads to anyone else and infects them. (Varyk)

Why would you help us? (Delphine) I hear stupidity is a fatal disease. Doing my own experimentation to see if that’s true or not. If I survive, we’ll know it’s not. If I die…well, it’ll suck. Bad. And I won’t be happy. (Asmodeus)

What do you mean I have a predetermined death?” – Nick “Did I stutter?” – Death “No.” – Nick “Do I look like Webster’s?” – Death “No.” – Nick “Then you should understand what I said, since I didn’t speak in code. Every mortal creature is born with an expiration date. Some immortals, too. Set by the big clockmaker. But excessive stupidity and moronic tendencies can shorten it. Pissing me off is one really good way to cut yours down to three seconds from now.” – Death

I can’t believe you cheated! (Phobos) I can’t believe you didn’t know it. Man, what kind of god are you? I never knew stupidity had a divine representative. Guess I was wrong, huh? (Deimos)

Aren’t you forgetting something?” – Acheron “What?” – Artemis “Your payment.” – Acheron “The happiness on your face when first you touched him was enough. I only wish you’d been there when your daughter was born, but that was my fault. I’ve had a lifetime of joy, hugs and love from her and you missed all of that because of my stupidity and fear. His life is my gift to both of you. Let’s hope the future is much kinder to all of us than the past has been.” – Artemis

Well . . . he lets it ruin his life. He gets so obsessed with going after the one thing that hurt him that he loses sight of everything else. He becomes isolated from everyone and everything. Paranoid. He feels like he can't trust anyone around him ever. In the end, he loses everything, even his life. And for what? Total stupidity, if you ask me.

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.

If that isn't typical male stupidity! If something doesn't work, kick it or swear at it!

Christmas is at our throats again.

You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity.

Ultimate stupidity: Mistakenly thinking you will get what you want by complaining about and focusing on exactly what you don't want.

The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.

God's love never ceases. Never. Though we spurn him. Ignore him. Reject him. Despise him. Disobey him. He will not change. Our evil cannot diminish his love. Our goodness cannot increase it. Our faith does not earn it any more than our stupidity jeopardizes it. God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases.

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

Stupidity is much the same all the world over

Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain.

Whether it's Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian or whoever, stupidity is certainly celebrated.

Ground the main character in stupidity. Hire a good cast and a good crew.

Those who understood, in fact, say: 'I mustn't do this, I mustn't do that,' so as not to commit some stupidity or other! Splendid! But at a certain point we realize that all life is stupidity; so tell me yourself what it means never to have done anything foolish. At the very least it means you have never lived.

A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

This is no longer a slum neighborhood. I haven't heard of a Cubs fan being shot in a long time.- Anonymous Wrigley Field Neighbor, Chicago, IL

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

Only worry about your own happiness, which doesn’t have to be limited by anyone else’s stupidity unless you allow it to be.

Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.

The United States has degenerated into a social order that is awash in public stupidity and views critical thought as both a liability and a threat. Not only is this obvious in the presence of a celebrity culture that embraces the banal and idiotic, but also in the prevailing discourses and policies of a range of politicians and anti-public intellectuals who believe that the legacy of the Enlightenment needs to be reversed.

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.

She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you.

He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.

There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

‎The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible

There are two infinities: God and stupidity.

There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.

I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I the stupidity of living in the moment, and spend every dull, amazing second with me.

There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.

The fool knows after he has suffered.

He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.

Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice,

You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and self-abuse and self-aggrandizement and self-deception and pompousness and self-righteousness and cruelty and indifference beyond what any other species has demonstrated the capacity for, which is the capacity for all the above.

In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to understand nature and not merely to observe it and endure what it imposes on us. Stupidity, from being an amiable individual defect, has become a social crime.

All the more vile is the stupidity of those persons who open heaven to all the impious and unbelieving without the grace of Him whom Scripture commonly teaches to be the only door whereby we enter into salvation.

..people (in Minnesota) avoid stupidity when possible, not wanting to be a $10 haircut on a 50 cent head.

It takes certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise.

Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.

No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no more imperialists, no more anarchists, no more socialists, no more communists, no more proletariat, no more democrats, no more republicans, no more bourgeois, no more aristocrats, no more arms, no more police, no more nations, an end at last to all this stupidity, nothing left, nothing at all, nothing, nothing.

An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.

There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.