Stupidity Quotes - Page 3

Ethnic conflict is a line between religion and stupidity.

Bureaucracies, I've suggested, are not themselves forms of stupidity so much as they are ways of organizing stupidity--of managing relationships that are already characterized by extremely unequal structures of imagination, which exist because of the existence of structural violence.

David Graeber

Am I too late?" Caleb asked as he joined them. "Did he do something stupid?""Yeah. On both counts." Tristan stalked past Nick.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)

Norma Fox Mazer

I thought Candy Mountain was a real place

Sarah Martin

Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.

Carl Hiaasen

Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction!

Mehmet Murat ildan

(Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury:)"Lion, rifles -- and stupidity.

Beryl Markham

None of the characters in (the story) were distinguished ones -- not even the lion.He was an old lion, prepared from birth to lose his life rather than to leave it. But he had the dignity of all free creatures, and so he was allowed his moment. It was hardly a glorious moment.The two men who shot him were indifferent as men go, or perhaps they were less than that. At least they shot him without killing him, and then turned the unsconscionable eye of a camera upon his agony. It was a small, a stupid, but a callous crime.

Beryl Markham

A stupid mule is still smarter than a good horse or a bad man.

Ursula Vernon

Unfinishedness avoids the stupidity of conclusions

Pierre Senges

You are Innocent, you can't be otherwise, there is no other way, even in your lust, greed, hatred, cunningness, you're INNOCENT, because you wanted to overpower others, nature with your stupidity. Stop this absurd ACT, Be Aware, Trust Existence!

Ramana Pemmaraju

Before the telescope and the microscope were invented the mankind was wearing blinkers.

M.Z.Riffi

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Ellen Glasgow

Stupidity alone can sometimes be tolerable, but when you add arrogance to the mix, you then become a stupid bitch.

D.S. Mixell

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly less stupid than we are to accept truths that the great men have always known. They have always known, they have known for ten thousand years, that to lock a human being into solitary confinement can make a madman of him or an animal. They have always known that a poor man frightened of the police and his landlord is a slave. They have always known that frightened people are cruel. They have always known that violence breeds violence. And we know it. But do the great masses of the world know it? No. It is our job to tell them. Because the great men can't be bothered. Their imaginations are already occupied with how to colonise Venus; they are already creating in their minds visions of a society full of free and noble human beings. Meanwhile, human beings are ten thousand years behind them, imprisoned in fear. The great men can't be bothered. And they are right. Because they know we are here, the boulder-pushers. They know we will go on pushing the boulder up the lower slopes of an immensely high mountain, while they stand on the top of the mountain, already free. All our lives, you and I, we will use all our energies, all our talents, into pushng that boulder another inch up the mountain. And they rely on us and they are right; and that is why we are not useless after all.

Doris Lessing

You and I, Ella, we are the failures. We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known. They have known for thousands of years that to lock a sick person into solitary confinement makes him worse. They have known for thousands of years that a poor man who is frightened of his landlord and of the police is a slave. They have known it. We know it. But do the great enlightened mass of the British people know it? No. It is our task, Ella, yours and mine, to tell them. Because the great men are too great to be bothered. They are already discovering how to colonise Venus and to irrigate the moon. That is what is important for our time. You and I are the boulder-pushers. All our lives, you and I, we'll put all our energies, all our talents, into pushing a great boulder up a mountain. The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind. We push the boulder.

Doris Lessing

Noi siam venuti al loco ov'i' t'ho dettoche tu vedrai le genti dolorosec'hanno perduto il ben de l'intelletto.We to the place have come, where I have told theeThou shalt behold the people dolorousWho have foregone the good of intellect.

Dante Alighieri

He took the Captain as he was, and was fond of him, with his cheery heartlessness, his incapacity to think beyond a couple of thoughts, for which his skull was far too roomy, his insignificant love affairs and childish infatuations, and the pointless and unconnected remarks that came out of his mouth, seemingly at random. He was a mediocre officer, who didn't care about his comrades, his men, his career.

Joseph Roth

The greatest stupidity in man is not his arrogance or ignorance, it he failing to realize who he is.

R.A.Delmonico

Stupidity is not my forté however, there is immense entertainment value in playing the dumb blonde...

Virginia Alison

Why is it that crisis pushes me to my own devices when those devices are frequently the very things that produced my crisis in the first place?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

I said you lie, knave!” shouted Beaumains, drawing his sword. “And for telling such craven falsehoods, you must die!”The knight looked plaintively at Roger. “What’s wrong with this fellow?”“He was dropped on his head when he was a baby,” answered Roger.

Gerald Morris

You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a "graphic novel," but comic books are still incredibly stupid.

Bill Watterson

Why can’t I do it?” [Isabel] asked….“Do what?”“Just forget about everything. Just go somewhere and get smashed and pretend like there are no problems or consequences. I know why. Because there are still problems and consequences. And going and--and--partying doesn’t make them go away. I feel like I’m the only sane person in the world. I don’t get why this whole world runs on stupidity.

Maggie Stiefvater

Please tell me you're not that stupid.Rachel to Melkin

C.J. Redwine

I’m different,” said the Kid. “My gran always said I was half clever, half stupid, and half crazy.

Charlie Higson

The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

Victor Hugo

When you're surrounded by stupidity, self-preservation isn't a sin.

Meljean Brook

This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Obviously this person's a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous.

Suzanne Collins

A fool tries to shut others' mouth instead of listens to his own heart.

Toba Beta

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.

Joan Rivers

You looked a little bit smarter when your stupidity lessened a lot.

Toba Beta

A fool who cursed the sun was surprised to see it still shining.

Marty Rubin

It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid.

Robert Gibbs

[Francesca] 'You really are a few biscuits short of breakfast.'His eyebrows furrowed in confusion.'You're a few colors shy of a rainbow?' she offered. 'Not pulling a full wagon? Knitting with only one needle? All foam and no beer? Your cheese slid off the cracker? You couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel?'[Nicodemus] 'All right. I get it.

Blake Charlton

We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant. He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der Post. He was bowled over by the charms of homeopathic medicine. He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way.

Christopher Hitchens

Hiram!' Shelton ran to Hi's side. 'Aren't you you bleeding? I thought she shot you!''Red wine. When I saw it running everywhere, I played dead.' He winced as Shelton poked his belly. 'But I'm not leaping off any more shelves. That was pretty stupid.

Kathy Reichs

It's the wrong way. She's farther away from the door now. It occurs to me that some people only have book smarts.

Kendare Blake

Nero, you are an example to all the children on this shuttle. Because most of them are so foolish, they think it is better to keep their stupidest thoughts to themselves. You, however, understand the profound truth that you must reveal your stupidity openly. To hold your stupidity inside you is to embrace it, to cling to it, to protect it. But when you expose your stupidity, you give yourself the chance to have it caught, corrected, and replaced with wisdom. Be brave, all of you, like Nero Boulanger, and when you have a thought of such surpassing ignorance that you think it's actually smart, make sure to make some noise, to let your mental limitations squeak out some whimpering fart of a thought, so that you have a chance to learn.

Orson Scott Card

If you think that you're so smart and holy, that means you haven't yet realized that a part of what we experience today...is a result of our stupidity and wickedness in the past.

Toba Beta

Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

Gustave Flaubert

Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is ignorant of one thing or another. They know that, to another intelligent person, they will not appear stupid in asking for an explanation of what they do not know, and so their ignorance on any particular issue does not become an embarrassment.

Lynsay Sands

If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

John Grisham

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

Frank Zappa

He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.

Tamora Pierce

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

George Bernard Shaw

And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

Orson Scott Card

Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties.

John Stuart Mill

You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all.He'd probably say he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.

Markus Zusak

How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.

Jean Plaidy

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

Nevil Shute

If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can't get us out.

Will Rogers

For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

Aldous Huxley

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

Orson Scott Card

I'm fairly certain that YOLO is just Carpe Diem for stupid people.

Jack Black

Come on, gentleman; let us drink to our stupidity.

Santosh Kalwar

For someone who's smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.

Gordon Korman

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