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

Stupidity arise for unwillingness to study.

stupidity: a process, not a state. A human being takes in far more information than he or she can put out. “Stupidity” is a process or strategy by which a human, in response to social denigration of the information she or he puts out, commits him or herself to taking in no more information than she or he can put out. (Not to be confused with ignorance, or lack of data.) Since such a situation is impossible to achieve because of the nature of mind/perception itself in its relation to the functioning body, a continuing downward spiral of functionality and/or informative dissemination results,’ and he understood why! ‘The process, however, can be reversed,’ the voice continued, ‘at any time.

Stupidity doesn't make you wise, it makes you stupid!

Stupidity is actually in a way the mark of intelligence - if you're not doing stupid things that defy logic you're probably not taking enough risks.

Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.

Stupidity is choice we make ourselves not hereditary though it could sometimes be environmentally deterministic. Repress your sinful DESIRES and see, if your stupidity will NOT reduce drastically

Stupidity of proving yourself when not required is itself a proof of stupidity.

Stupidity is a pretence to know unkowns, where as learning is a solution

Stupidity is not a behavior; it's a religion. One can die for it!

Stupidity is not at all lack of intelligence, it is the willingness of repeating the actions which crosses the boundaries of common sense. We all misplace our common sense at some point in life, but the champions of the act never realize that the sense which is uncommon should not be carried along all the time.

Stupidy is easy, everyone can learn it... You just say to stupid stuff and you are the big Job,... but try to be a wise that's what's hard and most people just try to destroy the wise people why?? Because they are too stupid to realease it!

Stupidity is a charm that leaves its master slowly... if it leaves at all.

Stupidity is doomed, therefore, to cringe at every syllable of wisdom.

Stupidity is not a disease, it's a choice.

Stupidity is not lack of intelligence or knowledge. Stupidity is when you are offered a book and you don’t read it. Stupidity is when you have the chance to learn from a good teacher and you choose to remain arrogant and defend useless beliefs; Stupidity is when life offers you an opportunity to grow and change and overcome your past, but you can’t break free from your habits and rather remain stuck to your old beliefs. Stupidity is when you insult the one that could make you free from your state of stupidity by using stupid affirmations and stupid arguments. Stupidity is always a choice, not a state of being.

Stupidity is not my forté however, there is immense entertainment value in playing the dumb blonde...

That God should allow good people to be as bestially stupid as that--rose against me like a towering blasphemy.

That such a slave as this should wear a sword, Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain Which are too intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passion That in the natures of their lords rebel, Being oil to the fire, snow to the colder moods, Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks With every gale and vary of their masters Knowing naught, like dogs, but following.

The car housed a hysterical bumper sticker: Save the Planet, and I permitted a moment of contemplation to truly bask in this thought. Save the planet? What a joke. Save the planet from what? From ourselves? And save it for what? For ourselves? It was a kind of perpetual stupidity in a tug-of-war battle over trivial matters. Only imbeciles see things in black and white: liberal or conservative, yes or no, this or that. Those in power laugh at those people in their morally inverted shades of grey, basking in the labels they've created so the people are easier to control.

The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that time.

The biggest mistake is trusting the wrong people who generally are also the dumbest.

That's what Ender has to understand. There really is evil in the world, and wickedness, and every brand of stupidity. There's meanness and heartlessness and... I don't even know which of them is me." - Hyrum Graff

The attempt [by the far-left] to boil down fascism to 'anything I don't like' is simply idiotic. Which is more fascist: Christina Hoff Sommers coming to speak about the lies of the feminist movement, or the people who are suggesting that they should actually be able to shut down her lecture by use of force? That seems a little more fascist to me.

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

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

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?' 'Of course. Who said it?' 'I don't know.' 'He was probably a coward,' she said. "He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

The difference between a drunkard and a madman is 10%.

The greatest ugliness in the world is seeing so beautiful a creature spoil themselves on stupidity.

The donkey heard the book gives wisdom and ate it.

THE GAP: Closed-Mindedness can create it, Narrow-Mindedness can widen it, Open-Mindedness can close it, Like-Mindedness… Will Bridge It!

The greatest stupidity in man is not his arrogance or ignorance, it he failing to realize who he is.

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

the general trouble with ignorance is always that ignorant people have no idea that that’s what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you’re a genius. If you’re stupid you can always blame miscalculation on bad luck.

The good stupid is the brave kind. When there's a real reason behind. Bad stupid is everything else.

The greatest prison in the universe is an ignorant mind.

The human species is terrifically talented and sophisticatedly stupid

The great reward given to intelligent people is that they can invent all the rules and equate any dissent with stupidity.

The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person’s argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.

The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.

The Internet is the aggregate of human derpitude. Listening to the Internet without being confident you've found a well-curated garden relative to the area of concern is a bad idea.

The internet is where some people go to show their true intelligence; others, their hidden stupidity.

The most difficult door to open is the entrance to an ignorant mind.

The most ignorant of all people is a person who is self assured in his or her premature decisions.

The media and intelligentsia were partly complicit in Trump's depiction of the world as a dystopia headed for even greater disaster. 'Charge the cockpit or you die!' cried the pro-Trump intellectual right. 'I'd rather see the empire burn to the ground under Trump, opening up at least the possibility of radical change, than cruise on autopilot under Clinton,' said the pro-Trump left. When people believe that the world is heading off a cliff, they are receptive to the perennial appeal of demagogues: 'What do you have to lose?' But if the media and intellectuals put events into statistical and historical context, rather than constantly crying 'crisis,' they would make it clearer what the answer to that question is. Revolutionary regimes from Nazi Germany and Maoist China to contemporary Venezuela show that people have a tremendous amount to lose when a charismatic leader forces a radical personal vision on a society. A modern liberal democracy is a precious achievement. Until the messiah comes, it will always have problems, but it's better to solve problems than to start a conflagration and hope for the best.

The one vice beyond redemption is to do bad things out of stupidity.

The Naga laughed softly, 'There's a thin line that separates courage from stupidity.' 'And that line is only visible in retrospect, my friend. If I'm successful, people will call me brave. If I fail, I will be called foolish. Let ,me do what I think is right. I'll leave the verdict to the future.

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. If, for the sake of argument, 1 million are violent, that's a mere .000625 percent of them. I wonder who among you wants to be judged on such a tiny minority. Further, at 1.6 billion, if all Muslims - or even most Muslims - were violent, the world would already be in flames. Most people simply want to live their lives in peace, with some degree of material comfort. I find it bizarre - and disturbing - that so many Americans imagine that being a Muslim somehow trumps human nature and makes ordinary simple people want to rise up and kill everyone. That takes a special kind of stupid.

The only response to stupidity and ignorance was silence