Stupidity Quotes

I hate stupidity, but what I hate even more is when people actually brag about it.

You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it...

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

Don’t do anything stupid.""Don’t worry," I whispered over the line, "I’m an expert on stupid.""You’r...

Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity - that was how to get stuff done.

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

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired...

This is laid down with a groove funkier and blacker than anything Prince of Michael Jackson--or any ...

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly o...

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

And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.

To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparab...

I'm allergic to stupidity.

The sad thing is that so many people, in the belief that the universe is organized to suit and influ...

We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any...

We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On ever...

So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the ha...

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

Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.

I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on ...

If you have the power to hit people over the head whenever you want, you don’t have to trouble yours...

Bureaucracies, I've suggested, are not themselves forms of stupidity so much as they are ways of org...

This is of course why violence is so often the preferred weapon of the stupid. One might even call i...

Falderson," he said quietly to Bahzell in passable Navahkan, "is as stupid as the day is long." He c...

...there was an almost terrifying lack of intelligence in his eyes.

Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.

Silly,' he said with mock serenity, 'isn't a word you should ever apply to people. They may be total...

Why are free spirits always so fucking dumb?

The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of m...

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly less stupid than we are to accept truths tha...

You and I, Ella, we are the failures. We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more s...

One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to d...

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

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

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' ca...

The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy."Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it...

Careful, Mr. Spiro, guns are dangerous. Especially the end with the hole.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?''Of course. Who said it?''I don't know.''He wa...

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a com...

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the ...

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

It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.

Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-dispos...

Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; an...

Freedom to breed will bring ruin to all.

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

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, ...

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

You're just another american who is willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick being sho...

worms have crawled up your nose and eaten your wits.

Is that gallantry I smell, or just stupidity? The two scents are much alike, as I recall.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of int...

Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

I tell you, stupidity, self-protective stupidity, is the fundamental sin. No man alive has a right t...

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water...

And the German society of eighty million people had been shielded against reality and factuality by ...

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

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

What a queer gamble our existence is. We decide to do A instead of B and then the two roads diverge ...

As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, som...

I’m not too sure what the name of the song was that he was playing when I came in, but whatever it w...

Prof McGonagall : ... bravery doesn't forgive stupidity. ...

Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

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

As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dre...

Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it mo...

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o...

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array...

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

Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and i...

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

You might have said that his look was thoughtful until you realized that he was not a thoughtful man...

The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

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

Why is being a nerd so bad? saying " I noticed you're a nerd is like saying hey, I noticed you'd rat...

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

IT (The country) IS HEADED TOWARD OVERSIMPLIFICATION. YOU WANT TO SEE A PRESIDENT OF THE FUTURE? TUR...

One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy s...

Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear an...

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidentl...

[P]art of having a complicated mind was understanding its limits, understanding that it couldn't thi...

So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, ...

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

I'll take crazy over stupid any day.

Let us tear down the romantic trappings that have adorned passion. Let us cease believing that the m...

What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more...

To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though...

I know who I am. Bloody hell, I'm getting enough bills for Karl Pilkington so I hope I am him, 'cos ...

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,...