Stupidity Quotes

Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.

It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to so vast and obvious a nonsensicalitysentence after sentence that has no apparent meaning at all--stuff quite as bad as the worst bosh of Warren Gamaliel Harding.

My wife had her drivers’ test the other day. She got 8 out of 10. The other 2 guys jumped clear.

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

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?

Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest

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.

Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!

In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

In most polls there are always about 5 percent of the people who 'don't know.' What isn't generally understood is that it's the same people in every poll.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.

To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.

He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.

Sometimes you panic and find yourself emitting remarks so profoundly inane that you would be embarrassed to say them to your dog. Your dog would look at you and think to itself, 'I may lick myself in public, but I'd never say anything as stupid as that.'

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always put a little extra on you for Petty, which is kind of a fine for stupidness.

Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

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.

The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.

My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

The stupid are invincible.

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.

Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.

The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw its tail, or a lizard catch flies, is precisely the sort of man whose mental weakness should be combated at the public expense, not fostered.

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege.

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

Better to keep quiet and let people think you're an idiot than speak up and confirm it.

God! How men of letters are stupid.

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

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

Boy is my wife stupid. It takes her and hour and a half to watch 60 minutes. My daughters no bargain either. In public school she was voted most likely to conceive.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

I don't have any insight or understanding on anything about the government. All I think is that it's stupid - which is the one perspective that's almost completely lacking in Washington.

My wife isn't very bright. The other day she was at the store, and just as she was heading for our car, someone stole it! I said, "Did you see the guy that did it?" She said, "No, but I got the license plate."

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.

If anyone knew where they were, I'd send the ISDBB (Incredibly Stupid and Dumb Beyond Belief) award to the two guys who tried to break in to the Ohio penitentiary.