41 Stupidity Quotes

Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties.

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

It seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.

And then he thought: is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

'When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.'

With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much.

When a war breaks out, people say: 'It's too stupid; it can't last long.' But though the war may well be 'too stupid,' that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.

I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

I'm not stupid!' in [his] experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove it's own inaccuracy.

Stupid people, people who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited.

And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves? -Ender's Shadow

Most men are rather stupid, and most of those who are not stupid are, consequently, rather vain.

Human beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield! Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the head divine, Wise foundress of the system of the world, Guide of the stars, who art thou then if thou, Bound to the tail of folly's uncurbed steed, Must, vainly shrieking with the drunken crowd, Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss. Accursed, who striveth after noble ends, And with deliberate wisdom forms his plans! To the fool-king belongs the world.

Is it possible that he has already abandoned all hope of getting re-elected? Or does he plan to cancel the Election altogether by declaring a national military emergency with terrorists closing in from all sides, leaving him with no choice but to launch a huge bomb immediately?. . . Desperate men do desperate things, and stupid men do stupid things. We are in for a desperately stupid summer.

'It didn't work, so let's do it some more'? In my line of work, they call that military stupidity. I don't know what they call it in civilian life.

Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.

I have seldom known a man cunning with his brush who was not simple with his tongue; or, indeed, any skill in particular that was not allied to general stupidity.

You as stupid as they come. Of course, I say this with your best interests at heart. Most people are stupid. I don't hold it against them

How is it possible that stupidity should end our lives when our enemies' cleverest stratagems had not

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but 'pervades and regulates the whole.' He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.

The ineffable dunce has nothing to say : embroidering it with reasonless vulgarities of attitudes, gestures and attire. There was never an impostor so hateful : a crank so variously stupid and dull. He makes me tired.

Then comes the kicker: Say the alphabet : backwards. 'Well, shoot, you got me. I'm not drunk, but I'm obviously too stupid to be driving, God damn it.'

It is the stupidest children who are the most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are the most grown-up.

Ordinarily he is insane, but he has lucid moments when he is only stupid.

A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.