Best 715 quotes in «stupidity quotes» category

I want your opinion on the best way to proceed. (Eli) I’d start by killing your son and his crew of idiots before their stupidity spreads to anyone else and infects them. (Varyk)

I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.

I would be shocked by the lack of security if we were not at Amity headquarters. They often straddle the line between trust and stupidity.

kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.

Judging by the the movie's enduring popularity, the message that stupidity is redemption is clearly what a lot of Americans want to hear.

Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.

Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.

Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads.

Mitt der Dummheit k a« mpfen G o« tter selbst vergebens. Even the gods themselves struggle in vain against stupidity.

Men. <...> They're idiots. It's like they all take a vow of stupidity or something.

Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation.

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.

My strengths and weaknesses are the same: I've got the willingness and stupidity to try anything. If I think it's even remotely possible, I'll do it.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

Nature is objective, and nature is knowable, but we can only view her through a glass darkly and many clouds upon our vision are of our own making: social and cultural biases, psychological preferences, and mental limitations (in universal modes of thought, not just individualized stupidity).

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.

Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?

Oh. Sorry about the muzzle. But it was necessary to protect you from your own stupidity. (Thorn)

One cannot be betrayed if one has no people.

Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.

One whose troops repeatedly congregate in small groups here and there, whispering together, has lost the masses. One who frequently grants rewards is in deep distress. One who frequently imposes punishments is in great difficulty. One who is at first excessively brutal and then fears the masses is the pinnacle of stupidity.

Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.

Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said, 'but sometimes there's a fine line between courage and stupidity.

Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.

Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you.

Sign at a Tennessee highway: When this sign is under water, this road is impassable.

Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or stupidity, I do not know-as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms. Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.

Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet.

Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.

Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.

Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.

Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.

Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.

...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced.

Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis.