Gustave Flaubert Quotes About Stupidity

Quotes about: Stupidity

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

  Gustave Flaubert

  Dream, Freedom, Stupid

• Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Stupid, Literature, Unshakable

• Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Humility, Stupidity

  "Sentimental Education". Book by Gustave Flaubert, 1869.

• To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Happiness, Selfish, Stupid

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.62, Harvard University Press

• Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Wisdom, Reading, Knowledge

• Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Stupidity, Earth, Limitless

• Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Lying, Stupid, Conclusion

• Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Stupid, Ignorance, Names

• Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Broken, Stupidity, Trying

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