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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 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 are free spirits always so fucking dumb?

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

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 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 is the distance between intelligence and stupidity.

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.

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?

You can fool no man than yourself.

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

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 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 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.

Wisdom simplifies the things; stupidity makes the things complicated!

You can know a lot and still be stupid.

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

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

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

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

you know what is stupidity? underestimating self

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

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.

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

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

Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain.

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

All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.

A lottery is a tax on stupidity.

Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity.

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.

A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread.

Archimedes once said that 'Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.' There is a much more difficult task than this: To try to lift an ignorant up from where he stands, because he is heavily chained to the stupidity!

Aren’t you forgetting something?” – Acheron “What?” – Artemis “Your payment.” – Acheron “The happiness on your face when first you touched him was enough. I only wish you’d been there when your daughter was born, but that was my fault. I’ve had a lifetime of joy, hugs and love from her and you missed all of that because of my stupidity and fear. His life is my gift to both of you. Let’s hope the future is much kinder to all of us than the past has been.” – Artemis

Ban walking sticks in wilderness. Hikers that use walking sticks are more likely to chase animals.

As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place of stupidity I must attack: vain mortal, you are limited by nothing.

Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when you don't know anything, not even as much as you did when you were younger, and you don't even have a philosophy about all the things you don't know, the way you did when you were twenty or would again when you were thirty-eight.

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.