Robertson Davies Quotes About Stupidity

Quotes about: Stupidity

• There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

  Robertson Davies

  Stupid, History, Doctrine

• It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion.

  Robertson Davies

  Talking, Names, Stupidity

  Robertson Davies (1996). “The Merry Heart: Selections 1980-1995”

• Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

  Robertson Davies

  Boredom, Evil, Stupidity

  Robertson Davies (1976). “World of wonders”, Penguin Books, 1977

• If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.

  Robertson Davies

  Life, Government, Stupidity

  "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks". Book by Robertson Davies, 1949.

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