Stupidity Quotes

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

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

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

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its 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.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

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.

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

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

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.

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

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

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.