Best 715 quotes in «stupidity quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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,--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.

Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. 'Fitness,' then, is only another name for 'survival.' Darwinism: That survivors survive.

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

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 future will be a better tomorrow.

‎The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.

The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.

The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which neighborhood, your district, your city, your county, your state, your nation-everybody grabbing each other's assholes in the Honeycomb of survival out of a fear-animalistic stupidity.

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

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 hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

Their stupidity does not amaze me, its when they're smart that amazes me. It's baffling whenever you find someone who's smart - incredible. Soon you'll have zoos for such things.

The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.

The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?

The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.

The only real stupidity is that of a closed mind.

The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.