Stupidity Quotes

If you don't do anything stupid when you're young, you won't remember something funny when you're old.

The greatest prison in the universe is an ignorant mind.

Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves? - or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?''Very likely they do,' said I; 'their shallow minds can hold no great ideas, and their light heads are carried away by trivialities that would not move a better-furnished skull; - and their only alternative to such discourse is to plunge over head and ears into the slough of scandal - which is their chief delight.

Anne Brontë

CUSTOMER (to their friend): God, the Famous Five titles realy were crap, weren’t they? Five Go Camping. Five Go Off in a Caravan.... If it was Five Go Down To a Crack House it might be a bit more exciting.

Jen Campbell

You'd have thought we planned it," says Peeta, giving me just the hint of a smile."Didn't you?" asks Portia. Her fingers press her eyelids closed as if she's warding off a very bright light."No," I say looking at Peeta with a new sense of apreciation. "Neither of us even knew what we were going to do before we went in.""And Haymitch?" says Peeta. "We decided we don't want any other allies in the arena.""Good. Then I won't be responsible for you killing off any of my friends with your stupidity," he says.

Suzanne Collins

Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

Alexander Berkman

You can not argue with stupid but you can certainly play with it.

Donna Lynn Hope

Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to an understanding of anything at all. And yet they think they understand. From earliest childhood, they delude themselves into thinking they comprehend the world, while all that's really going on is that they've got some primitive assumptions and prejudices. As they get older they learn a more elevated vocabulary in which to express their mindless pseudo- knowledge and bully other people into accepting their prejudices as if they were truth, but it all amounts to the same thing. Individually, human beings are all dolts.Pequenino: While collectively...Hive Queen: Collectively, they're a collection of dolts. But in all their scurrying around and pretending to be wise, throwing out idiotic half-understood theories about this and that, one or two of them will come up with some idea that is just a little bit closer to the truth than what was already known. And in a sort of fumbling trial and error, about half the time the truth actually rises to the top and becomes accepted by people who still don't understand it, who simply adopt it as a new prejudice to be trusted blindly until the next dolt accidentally comes up with an improvement.>Pequenino: So you're saying that no one is ever individually intelligent, and groups are even stupider than individuals-- and yet by keeping so many fools engaged in pretending to be intelligent, they still come up with some of the same results that an intelligent species would come up with.Hive Queen: Exactly.

Orson Scott Card

Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations. Music can be used to stimulate mass emotion, while mathematics cannot; and musical incapacity is recognized (no doubt rightly) as mildly discreditable, whereas most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity

G H Hardy

Fast and stupid is still stupid. It just gets you to stupid a lot quicker than humans could on their own. Which, I admit, is an accomplishment," she added, "because we're pretty damn good at stupid.

Jack Campbell

A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

Carlo M. Cipolla

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying.It was:'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?

Idries Shah

Men are pigs, darling. I really have every sympathy for women that they actually have to choose one of these arrogant, stupid morons to settle down with and marry.

Michael Winner

He is about as well-put-together and focused as a zombie at a tractor pull.

Alexander Fontana

No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that:a) people whom one had once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid.b) day after day, with unceasing monotony, one is harassed in one's activities by stupid individuals who appear suddenly and unexpectedly in the most inconvenient places and at the most improbable moments.

Carlo M. Cipolla

This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the “over” and just think, then we could do, too. Only we’d be smarter doers because we’d be thinkers.

Sarah Strohmeyer

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

Jerome K. Jerome

No matter how smart you might appear to be later with your set of diplomas on their fine white parchment, the mistakes you made before the real lessons sunk in never fade. No matter how high you hang those official documents with their official seals and signatures, how shinning and polished the frame, your reflection in the glass will never let you forget how stupid you felt when you didn't know any better.

Tupelo Hassman

All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind.

Veronica Roth

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.

Stephen Vizinczey

You're going to keep making these mistakes as long as you keep carrying your brain in the same scabbard with your sword, Lelldorin.

David Eddings

you're Shane, right?'He inched away from her and managed a quick nod as he twisted the rag he held in his fingers. 'Heidi sad you were willing to teach me how to ride.' Her expression shifted from entertained to confused, as if she was wondering why no one had mentioned he was a can or two shy of a six-pack. 'A horse,' he clarified, then wanted to kick himself. What else but a horse? Did he think she was here to learn to ride his mother's elephant? One corner of Annabelle's perfect, full mouth twitched. 'A horse would be good. You seem to have several.'He wanted to remind himself that he was usually fine around women. Smooth even. He was intelligent, funny and could, on occasion, be charming. Just not now, with his blood pumping and his brain doing nothing more than shouting "it's her, it's her" over and over again. Chemistry, he thought grimly. It could turn the smartest man into a drooling idiot. Here he was, proving the theory true.

Susan Mallery

It's not easy to kill a mountain goat. He thinks with his spine.

John Gardner

No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

When stupidity knocks at the door, it is stupidity that opens it.

Ljupka Cvetanova

Silly,' he said with mock serenity, 'isn't a word you should ever apply to people. They may be totally stupid, in fact, but if you call them silly you've lost their vote.

Dick Francis

Genuinity is mother of stupidity.

Vikrmn

Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.

Slavoj Žižek

There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Thomas Mann

Actually, I was prone to random acts of stupidity. I considered it to be one of my talents.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

The fourth approved approach for the problem of frontally attacking a guarded wormhole was to shoot the officer who suggested it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Listen, last time I talked to you three, you were all two oars short of having any oars, so I don't want to hear it.

James Riley

Stupidity is doomed,therefore, to cringeat every syllableof wisdom.

Heraclitus

I didn’t say you weren’t smart. I said you were stupid.”“I guess I’m too dumb to see the difference.

Cath Crowley

Most of your heritage comes from your culture, stupidity is one of them.

M.F. Moonzajer

I consider myself a synthetic thinker in a virtual domain therefore if I’m way off there is no solid foundation or reference for authentic stupidity.

Carl Henegan

I belong to a stupid nation that kill and murder their own people for language and religion, then they call it foreigners interference.

M.F. Moonzajer

Be a hero or enjoy fucking life, don’t try to be bunch of stupid flesh acting as normal humans.

M.F. Moonzajer

I was that stupid, I realized. I was also stupid enough not to realize that sometimes even the most beautiful souls need to be shown love once in a while.

Chamera Sampson

For every criminal mastermind, there were ten cretins: the cruel algebra of intelligence applied across the masses.

John Nardizzi

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.

Chuck Palahniuk

You can't fix stupid

R. Alan Woods

Diversity of opinions is not what is stopping people from living together in harmony. Stupidity isز

Sameh Elsayed

Let us tear down the romantic trappings that have adorned passion. Let us cease believing that the measure of a man’s love lies in how stupid he has become or is willing to be.

José Ortega y Gasset

I ain't grouchy,” Teft snapped. “I just have a low threshold for stupidity.

Brandon Sanderson

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.

Albert Einstein

In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows.

L. Frank Baum

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Nicolas Boileau

It’s an old Camorri tradition for when a bunch of people are planning something stupid,” said Locke. “Actually, we have a lot of traditions for that. You’ll find out

Scott Lynch

Stupidity is actually in a way the mark of intelligence - if you're not doing stupid things that defy logic you're probably not taking enough risks.

Gregor Collins

Was he, after all, really a bad man doing a brilliant impersonation of an idiot? It was hard to tell. The connections between stupidity and malice were so tangled and so dense.

Edward St. Aubyn

Cleverness have no meanings until you find the stupidity that teach you.

Lena Hussain

The only thing I hate worse than a hero is a stupid hero.

Raymond L. Atkins

This is laid down with a groove funkier and blacker than anything Prince of Michael Jackson--or any other black artist of the recent years for that matter--has come up with.

Bret Easton Ellis

...the Uncommon Stupidity charge agents me be dropped."My shock at the "Honorably Ass-kisser" comment was pushed away by the thought of a law agents uncommon stupidity and wondered how we could get one.

Kim Harrison

It's not that there is more stupidity. It just has more intrusive ways of presenting itself. It used to be, you could be near an idiot and you wouldn't know it. With today's advances, that's less likely.

Tom Levine

One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Life is too short not to start something stupid.

Richie Norton

Of course he was required to wear a seat belt, just as he was required to give directions to a torture camp, because stupidity was the single abiding law of the universe.

Anthony Marra

So this is what men are like. Well, that's it, then - I am going to be a lesbian.

Louise Rennison

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