Best 715 quotes in «stupidity quotes» category

What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together

What we need is a tax on human stupidity.

When a celebrated author says a stupid thing it's still a stupid thing.

When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." [Thoughts on Various Subjects]

Whenever God allows a mass blindness to cover his church, it is not out of stupidity, it is out of divine providence

When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, perhaps because he had very few ideas and had to wring each one dry.

When people support you when you have done something wrong. It doesnt mean you are right, but it means those people are promoting their hate , bad behavior or living their bad lives through you.

When stupidity knocks at the door, it is stupidity that opens it.

When stupidity of today joins with the stupidity of yesterday it becomes a myth; my myth a stupidity glorifies itself.

When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah, I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying, and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression. Plus, of course, friendship—though I like to think that my reaction would have been the same if I hadn't known Salman at all. To re-state the premise of the argument again: the theocratic head of a foreign despotism offers money in his own name in order to suborn the murder of a civilian citizen of another country, for the offense of writing a work of fiction. No more root-and-branch challenge to the values of the Enlightenment (on the bicentennial of the fall of the Bastille) or to the First Amendment to the Constitution, could be imagined. President George H.W. Bush, when asked to comment, could only say grudgingly that, as far as he could see, no American interests were involved…

When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encountering a thousand toils and dangers in the process, has, in the end, no further object than to raise themselves in the estimation of others; when we see that not only offices, titles, decorations, but also wealth, nay, even knowledge[1] and art, are striven for only to obtain, as the ultimate goal of all effort, greater respect from one's fellowmen,—is not this a lamentable proof of the extent to which human folly can go?

When you are in the company of lunatics, behave like a lunatic. When you are in the company of intelligentsias, speak with brilliance...that is how a chameleon behaves, the territory changes it, and it adapts to the changes.

When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.

When you're surrounded by stupidity, self-preservation isn't a sin.

Where there is ignorance there is sorrow. Where there is stupidity there is pain. Where there is intelligence there is hope. Where there is wisdom there is joy.

Why are free spirits always so fucking dumb?

Why are girls determined to have emotionally heated conversations when they're drunk? In my observation, too much alcohol makes guys one-dimensional hornballs and girls unpredictable basket cases, and under these dangerous circumstances they attempt to walk into the nearest house party and look for love. And people wonder why their relationships are so messed up.

Why can’t I do it?” [Isabel] asked…. “Do what?” “Just forget about everything. Just go somewhere and get smashed and pretend like there are no problems or consequences. I know why. Because there are still problems and consequences. And going and--and--partying doesn’t make them go away. I feel like I’m the only sane person in the world. I don’t get why this whole world runs on stupidity.

Why are dumb brutes so damned smart, anyway?' 'Why are us smart folk so often stupidly brutal, Quick Ben?' Trull asked. 'Stop trying to confuse me in my state of animal terror, Edur.

Wisdom simplifies the things; stupidity makes the things complicated!

Why is being a nerd so bad? saying " I noticed you're a nerd is like saying hey, I noticed you'd rather be intelligent that stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan

Why is it a man can never seem to buckle down and train himself to indolence and stupidity when he can see what sanctuary they offer from toil and pain?

Why you keep telling me to be careful, Old man ? Your stupidity doesn't deserve my sacrifice, Kiddo.

Will this be in the examination, Mr Hecker?" was the limit of my students' interest in any given subject. If it was going to be in the test they took notes, if it was not going to be in the test they did not take notes. Their silent, depthless stares were unnerving. I told myself that they were not stupid - for how could the final attainment of thousands of years of human progress be stupid?

Wisdom is the distance between intelligence and stupidity.

You can not argue with stupid but you can certainly play with it.

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

You better put an S on your forehead, cause your name must be stupid.

You can fool no man than yourself.

You can know a lot and still be stupid.

You cannot simply hide your stupidity under the shed of your immaturity.

You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.

You can't overestimate the stupidity of the general public.

you know what is stupidity? underestimating self

You can't taste the glory of that person, Who pass the the gate of mortality , Which is guarded by stupidity

You know what? We need a recession in this country, because that would finaly weed out al the subnormal, underdeveloped, stupefied, puerile people in this workforce.

You may be a good warrior... But you've made a mistake I never did. You agreed to serve a stupid king.

You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all.He'd probably say he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.

You can't stay here any more. My fears have been irrational and they've forced me to make unwise decisions and accept the unacceptable.

You know what man really desires?" inquired the doctor, grinning into the immobile face of the Baron. "One of two things: to find someone who is so stupid that he can lie to her, or to love someone so much that she can lie to him.

You looked a little bit smarter when your stupidity lessened a lot.

You might have said that his look was thoughtful until you realized that he was not a thoughtful man. It was the earnest and contained look of those who are a little hard of hearing or a little stupid.

you must be stupid , if you think that i'm stupid enough, to believe your stupidness stupidity .

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.

you're Shane, right?' He inched away from her and managed a quick nod as he twisted the rag he held in his fingers. 'Heidi sad you were willing to teach me how to ride.' Her expression shifted from entertained to confused, as if she was wondering why no one had mentioned he was a can or two shy of a six-pack. 'A horse,' he clarified, then wanted to kick himself. What else but a horse? Did he think she was here to learn to ride his mother's elephant? One corner of Annabelle's perfect, full mouth twitched. 'A horse would be good. You seem to have several.' He wanted to remind himself that he was usually fine around women. Smooth even. He was intelligent, funny and could, on occasion, be charming. Just not now, with his blood pumping and his brain doing nothing more than shouting "it's her, it's her" over and over again. Chemistry, he thought grimly. It could turn the smartest man into a drooling idiot. Here he was, proving the theory true.

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

You're going to keep making these mistakes as long as you keep carrying your brain in the same scabbard with your sword, Lelldorin.

After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity.

Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]

Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain.