Best 715 quotes in «stupidity quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

One cannot be betrayed if one has no people.

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.

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

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.

Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.

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.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

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

Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.

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 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 and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

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

Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis.

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the view­point of the novel's wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

That's a wise substitution by Terry Venables: three fresh man, three fresh legs.

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.

The best way to fight stupidity, is by ignoring it.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

The biggest problem I have with the stupidity of our foreign policy, we have Mosul. They think a lot of the ISIS leaders are in Mosul. So we have announcements coming out of Washington and coming out of Iraq, we will be attacking Mosul in three weeks or four weeks. Well, all of these bad leaders from ISIS are leaving Mosul. Why can't they do it quietly?

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.