Stupidity Quotes

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

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

There is nothing like the way people feel after they've seen 'The Intouchables.' They feel amazing. The word of mouth on this film is incredible. It's intelligent-feeling good. You're not insulted by the low-browness or stupidity of some of the humor. It's so smart and terrific.

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.

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

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile.