Stupidity Quotes

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

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

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeci...

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty,...

If only my genitals didn't floatWhen I relaxed in the bathAnd we both looked down and we both agreed...

The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistak...

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

Why can’t I do it?” [Isabel] asked….“Do what?”“Just forget about everything. Just go somewhere and g...

...pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying...

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

The biggest sin in Satanism is not murder, nor is it kindness. It is stupidity.

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars--all over Europe, all over the world. "S...

People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they ...

If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Men are pigs, darling. I really have every sympathy for women that they actually have to choose one ...

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human ...

Of course, even before Flaubert, people knew stupidity existed, but they understood it somewhat diff...

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes fr...

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

One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is ...

We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

That's what Ender has to understand. There really is evil in the world, and wickedness, and every br...

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

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

Nero, you are an example to all the children on this shuttle. Because most of them are so foolish, t...

Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to ...

Irony is wasted on the stupid

People cry out against the sinner, yet it is not the sinful, but the stupid, who are our shame. Ther...

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more...

I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a nor...

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lighting´s going to strike".

And I am nothing if not a stupid, stupid man.

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

Never confuse honor with stupidity!

People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are.

Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others.The same ap...

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. The...

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to loo...

Getting even was the basis of many primate semantic confusions, such as"expropriating the expropriat...

It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that ca...

It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly st...

I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement

If you can’t define something you have no formal rational way of knowing that it exists. Neither can...

And after all, if stupidity did not, when seen from within, look so exactly like talent as to be mis...

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

Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

stupidity: a process, not a state. A human being takes in far more information than he or she can pu...

Well, let's see. There's—of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that ther...

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public

Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessi...

It’s an old Camorri tradition for when a bunch of people are planning something stupid,” said Locke....

When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, per...

When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, per...

When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, per...

When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, per...

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

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. ...

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

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

You'd have thought we planned it," says Peeta, giving me just the hint of a smile."Didn't you?" asks...

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

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

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

Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was.Where people went ...

Right!""Right!""You can get there!""I can get there!""You're a natural at counting to two!""I'm a na...

If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunders...

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

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

I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be i...

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

The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

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

If stupidity got us into this, why can't stupidity get us out?

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are pe...

...It was borne in upon her audience that the outside of Jane's charming head was distinctly superio...

Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

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

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

For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great mo...

Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowle...

Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to thin...

But if we reason it out simply and not try to be one bit fancy, then what sort of pride can you poss...

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

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

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encounter...

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

You are an unusual, brilliant child who has not seen enough of life to grasp the full measure of hum...