Stupidity Quotes

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Never underestimate the booberie of the booboisie.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

There is no vaccine against stupidity.

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.

The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west.

Stupidity is without anxiety.

What a childhood I had. My parents sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn't help me at all.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

He was not so much brain as earwax

Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.

The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

As if there were safety in stupidity alone

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

There's no defense against stupidity.

She failed her drivers test. She couldn't get used to the front seat. It took her four lessons to learn to sit up.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

My wife a great driver, she once hit a deer. It was in a zoo. There is a pair of shoes on the dashboard. They belong to the last guy she hit

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

Because when a guy does something stupid once, well, that’s because he’s guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, that’s usually to impress some girl.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.

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.

He who laughs last didn't get it in the first place.

...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot. I implore you, send him back to his father and brothers, who are waiting for him with open arms in the penitentiary. I suggest that we give him ten years in Leavenworth, or eleven years in Twelveworth.

Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much

The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.

Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.

Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.

Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, "Wait til it gets warmer."

Irony is wasted on the stupid

I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity. These antitheses are mediated in a higher unity; in our common stupidity.

I once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

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

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

I come from a stupid family. My uncle heard that most deaths occurs within ten miles of the house...so he moved.

The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.

What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.