Stupidity famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
-
I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?
-- A. O. Scott -
If you hang around long enough, they think you're good. It's either my tenacity or my stupidity, I'm not sure which.
-- Adam West -
Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis...
-- Aimee Friedman -
I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children.
-- Alain Delon -
One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
-- Alan Bradley -
There are two fools in every marketplace; one asks too little, one asks too much.
-- Alan Sugar -
[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.
-- Albert Camus -
stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves
-- Albert Camus -
Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
-- Albert Einstein -
artificial intellegance is no match for natural stupidity
-- Albert Einstein -
I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him.
-- Albert Einstein -
Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.
-- Albert Einstein -
New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign,
-- Alec Baldwin -
She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.
-- Alex Shakar -
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
-- Alexander Berkman -
Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.
-- Alexander Berkman -
Beware of seriousness: it is a form of stupidity
-- Alexander Waugh -
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
-- Anatole France -
Racism, prejudice and discrimination are an inexplicable collective stupidity
-- Anderson Silva -
Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads.
-- Andre Glucksmann -
What keeps people from living together is their stupidity, not their differences.
-- Anna Gavalda -
My girlfriend makes me want to be a better person... so I can get a better girlfriend.
-- Anthony Jeselnik -
Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever
-- Aristophanes -
Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.
-- Art Buchwald -
Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout.
-- Ashanti -
Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.
-- Avital Ronell -
Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not "idealistic," no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
-- Ayn Rand -
No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
The best humor is offered up by the stupidity of your opponents.
-- Barney Frank -
The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
-- Barney Frank -
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.
-- Bernard Barton -
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.
-- Bertrand Russell -
To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.
-- Bill Maher -
Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.
-- Bill Mollison -
what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected to every possible and imaginable contingency and contradiction, Life. Life is crime, theft, jealousy, hunger, lies, disgust,stupidity, sickness, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, piles of corpses. what can you do about it, my poor friend?
-- Blaise Cendrars -
Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.
-- Brandon Sanderson -
A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.
-- Bruce Catton -
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.
-- Carl Hiaasen -
Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity.
-- Carl Icahn -
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.
-- Carl Jung -
The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they say they are, not with a lurking suspicion in the therapist's mind that they may, in fact, be otherwise. This attitude is not stupidity on the therapist's part; it is the kind of attitude that is most likely to lead to trust...
-- Carl Rogers -
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
-- Carl Sagan -
This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
-- Cato the Elder -
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
-- Cesare Pavese -
The photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because they were too lazy to finish their studies. Hence this universal infatuation was not only characterized by blindness and stupidity, but also by vindictiveness.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
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.
-- Charles Fort -
Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
-- Charles Kettering -
In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.
-- Charles Krauthammer -
Your stupidity is appalling!" "Most stupidity is!
-- Charles M. Schulz -
I admire anyone who can come up with something original. But not originality alone, because there can be originality in stupidity, with no musical description of any emotion or any beauty the man has seen, or any kind of life he has lived.
-- Charles Mingus -
I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?
-- Charlie Sheen -
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.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -
If he who has little wit needs a master to inform his stupidity, he who has much frequently needs ten to keep in check his worldly wisdom, which might otherwise, like a high-mettled charger, toss him to the ground.
-- Christian Scriver -
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.
-- Christoph Martin Wieland -
What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
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.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
Men. <...> They're idiots. It's like they all take a vow of stupidity or something.
-- Cindy Gerard -
Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.
-- Claude Chabrol -
The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
-- Czeslaw Milosz -
My grandfather... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right.
-- Dan Quayle -
Office of the Vice President... The Council on Competativeness.
-- Dan Quayle -
Over a third of the Newenhan population was under eighteen,which didn't make his job any easier, the hormonally challenged being terminally and all too often fatally prone to acts of stupidity.
-- Dana Stabenow -
I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.
-- Daniel Tammet -
Ban walking sticks in wilderness. Hikers that use walking sticks are more likely to chase animals.
-- Dave Barry -
Trails need to be reconstructed. Please avoid building trails that go uphill.
-- Dave Barry -
Too many bugs and leeches and spiders and spiderwebs. Please spray the wilderness to rid the area of these pests.
-- Dave Barry -
We're all entitled to a little stupidity now and then. --Beldin
-- David Eddings -
There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.
-- David Farland -
An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.
-- David Hare -
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.
-- David Hume -
But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of a theory - such things as truth, or probability, or explanatory power - could not possibly be among the reasons for its currency.
-- David Stove -
I have sought you out to cure me.' 'To cure you of what?' 'Of this cursed affliction.' 'I cannot cure stupidity.' Scapegrace frowned.
-- Derek Landy -
An all encompassing uncertainty on the part of any person is either a sign of utter stupidity or extreme intelligence. Only the not so dumb, or the not so smart, are ever certain about anything.
-- Derek R. Audette -
We believe only what we see. So, with television, we believe everything.
-- Dieter Hildebrandt -
People just relate to me. They know I'm a regular person brought up in a hardworking, poor family, that I've had all the struggles that people have. I'm just a friendly person. And I hopefully have a good sense of humor. People get a kick out of my stupidity.
-- Dolly Parton -
We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity.
-- Don Kardong -
Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced.
-- Donald Barthelme -
Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal
-- Donald E. Williams, Jr. -
Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.
-- E. B. Farnum -
Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
-- Edward Abbey -
Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible
-- Edward Tufte -
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edwin Land
