Best 715 quotes in «stupidity quotes» category

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

Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.

Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.

Being stupid is second step in curing your stupidity.

Being smart means you learned it well; being stupid means you haven't learned it yet; but true genius means you know it when no one taught it to you.

Bizim hepimizin içinde zübüklük olmasa, bizler de birer zübük olmasak, aramızdan böyle zübükler büyüyemezdi. Hepimizde birer parça olan zübüklük birleşip işte başımıza böyle zübükler çıkıyor. Oysa zübüklük bizde, bizim içimizde. Onları biz, kendi zübüklüğümüzden yaratıyoruz. Sonra, kendi zübüklüklerimizin bir tek Zübük’de birleştiğini görünce ona kızıyoruz. Bu zübükler heryerde var, biz zübükler nerde varsak, onlar da orada...

Sovrana: — Sono solo inutile, non stupida. Il Sovrano invece è inutile e stupido, e perciò è un uomo felice, come voi potete capire... così riesce anche a essere buono, mentre io no: io sono cattiva... molto cattiva...

But stupid things have a gravity and a momentum of their own; they crush good thinking and resistance as colonists with guns and cannons overcame spear-throwing natives.

But if we reason it out simply and not try to be one bit fancy, then what sort of pride can you possibly take or what's the sense of ever having it, if man is poorly put together as a physiological type and if the enormous majority of the human race is brutal, stupid, and profoundly unhappy?

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.

But I still state unhesitatingly, that for pure, vacillating stupidity, for superb incompetence to command, for ignorance combined with bad judgment --in short, for the true talent for catastrophe -- Elphy Bey stood alone. Others abide our question, but Elphy outshines them all as the greatest military idiot of our own or any other day. Only he could have permitted the First Afghan War and let it develop to such ruinous defeat. It was not easy: he started with a good army, a secure position, some excellent officers, a disorganized enemy, and repeated opportunities to save the situation. But Elphy, with the touch of true genius, swept aside these obstacles with unerring precision, and out of order wrought complete chaos. We shall not, with luck, look upon his like again.

But the more I think about it, the more I think PC words are a crock of shit. If I want to describe something using a stupid word, I should.

Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any subtlety of thought or expression. A man for his time, indeed.

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

Calling the cat stupid never made the mice wise.

Cieszy mię ten rym: „Polak mądr po szkodzie”; Lecz jeśli prawda i z tego nas zbodzie, Nową przypowieść Polak sobie kupi, Że i przed szkodą, i po szkodzie głupi.

Children are no longer being parented, but are raised. Thats why they don't have morals, ethics,humanity and manners, because their parents neglected them. We now live in a society that doesnt care about right or wrong.

Children are being killed, because some "adults" think life is a game. Something is amiss. When children shoot up other children in school, it's a national tragedy, and a week of mourning. When grown men are killing unarmed young, yes unarmed young, it bespeaks the leagues of fear residing in these men's hearts; that they've created a world in which they themselves have become useless. Then it makes front page, and it becomes business as usual. Something is amiss here. If adults don't truly grow up, then their young may never get the chance.

Cleverness have no meanings until you find the stupidity that teach you.

CUSTOMER: I don’t know why she wants it, but my wife asked for a copy of The Dinosaur Cookbook. BOOKSELLER: The Dinah Shore Cookbook?

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

Cruelty is the surest sign of stupidity.

CUSTOMER (to their friend): God, the Famous Five titles realy were crap, weren’t they? Five Go Camping. Five Go Off in a Caravan.... If it was Five Go Down To a Crack House it might be a bit more exciting.

¿Cómo es posible que algo pueda parecer una idea tan brillante un día y una estupidez al siguiente?

Destruction is easily reversed, Brain drainage howbeit is a civilization killer

Don’t do anything stupid." "Don’t worry," I whispered over the line, "I’m an expert on stupid." "You’re..." "Like, I can spot stupidity, because I know it so well. The way an exterminator knows bugs really well, and can spot where they’ve been? I’m like that. A stupidinator." "Never say that word again," Prof said.

Do be stupid, it's genius.

Don't deceive yourself that you can be stupid for some time and stop and then be wise again. Stupid is more addictive than you can imagine.

Does it look like I have stupid written across my forehead

Don't do anything stupid, they said. Well, it's now or never, I suppose, and stupidity and confidence run a fine line.

Don’t ever be a stupid shadow who follows perfectly his leader no matter what foolishness his leader does!

Don't ever mistake silence for ignorance, when it is obviously stupidity

Don't draw the line before stupidity. It'll take it as a start.

Don't let your teeth make you lose respect by permanently keeping them opened for the sake of being friendly.

Don't go confusing stupidity with guts.

Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.

Dramatic uprising of stupidity can start from nowhere and only be seen when it reaches it's climax.

Dzieje kultury wykazują, ze głupota jest siostrą bliźniaczą rozumu, ona rośnie najbujniej nie na glebie dziewiczej ignorancji , lecz na gruncie uprawnym siódmym potem doktorów i profesorów. Wielkie absurdy nie są wymyślane przez tych, których rozum krząta się wokół spraw codziennych. Nic dziwnego zatem, że właśnie najintensywniejsi myśliciele bywali producentami największego głupstwa. / The history of culture shows that foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom. It does not flourish on the fields of pure ignorance but on the fields tirelessly plowed by doctors and professors. Great absurdities do not flourish where one is busy with everyday life. No wonder that sometimes most vigorous thinkers come up with utmost stupidities. (Dziennik 1956, XIX, Thursday)

Even God fights in vain when it comes to stupidity, so why should you?

Este universo es una gran ciudad en la que con una ley eterna Dios condena a los necios a hacer una guerra contra sí mismos. (...) Si algún idiota, por maldad perversa, por relajación o por pereza, o incluso por imprudencia, actuara mal, siendo reo de alta traición, ¡hágase él mismo la guerra a sí mismo!

Everything happens for a reason but sometimes the reason is because you are stupid

Even idiots can reach old age.

Fear is a communicable disease; it comes out in the sweat and passes from host to host. Fear is an incendiary agent; it combusts with stupidity.

Falderson," he said quietly to Bahzell in passable Navahkan, "is as stupid as the day is long." He craned his neck to gaze up at the hradani and shook his head. "In fact, he's even stupider than I thought. You, sir, are the biggest damned hradani-no offense-I think I've ever seen.

Fast and stupid is still stupid. It just gets you to stupid a lot quicker than humans could on their own. Which, I admit, is an accomplishment," she added, "because we're pretty damn good at stupid.

...few truly understood how disheartening it was to be cut off from worlds so strange and distant they remained to us fantasies rather than distant realities, too surreal and foreign to be touched. Their minds were fixated on what they knew to be real, unable to create the atmospheres of the nebulous realms that lay just beyond our reach, just beyond the dimming horizon, our celestial limits.

Fine words have the power to make even the stupidest person sound intelligent.

Folly is the stupidity of heart.

Fools are in the majority, and they never lack confidence because a fool believes that being in the majority is proof that one is right.

First, however, I must deal with the matter of Jesus, the so-called savior, who not long ago taught new doctrines and was thought to be a son of God. This savior, I shall attempt to show, deceived many and caused them to accept a form of belief harmful to the well-being of mankind. Taking its root in the lower classes, the religion continues to spread among the vulgar: nay, one can even say it spreads because of its vulgarity and the illiteracy of its adherents. And while there are a few moderate, reasonable, and intelligent people who interpret its beliefs allegorically, yet it thrives in its purer form among the ignorant.