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

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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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 only real stupidity is that of a closed mind.

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

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 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.

There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

There are people who want to become rich; they become rich. If you persist you can fulfill any kind of stupidity

The future will be a better tomorrow.

There are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to achieve.

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

There are two fools in every marketplace; one asks too little, one asks too much.

There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.

There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [....] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance and only one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

There is no vaccine against stupidity.

The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it's not going to go up, don't buy it!

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it.

They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and of the heartbroken desire to see a place made whole again.

Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.

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

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

Toaster: A gift that every member of the family appreciates. Automatically burns toast.

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans, Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights; If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain; If lost, why then a grievous labour won; However, but a folly bought with wit, Or else a wit by folly vanquished.

To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange enigmatic ways of the world which she will spend lifetime trying to learn and understand.

To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please--respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence; but we can't pardon our equals going beyond us.

Tourism is the march of stupidity.

Trump, like that canary in the coalmine, makes clear what elements of fascism are really like. Let's be honest. The racism, the ignorance, the stupidity, the baiting, the great-man affect, this notion that he exists in a circle of certainty that can't be doubted, this kind of perverse hatred of the other. We've seen this before. This legacy is not new. What we have to recognize is the different form that it takes at a different moment in history.

Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)

Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.

[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity.

Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.

Vik? You ready? (Devyn) Your stupidity is what I live for, Captain. (Vik)

Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.