Stupidity Quotes - Page 14

• He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.

  Hesiod

  Trying, Stronger, Fool

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.43, University of Michigan Press

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• Sandy: Boy, you must really think I'm stupid or something. Jeff: Ahh, no one would call you stupid, to your face.

  Teri Garr

  Stupid, Boys, Thinking

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• Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.

  William of Ockham

  Occam's Razor, Entity

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• The more I know, the more I know that I don't know.

  Socrates

  Knows

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• More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity.

  William Wulf

  Names, Sin, Blind

  "A Case Against the GOTO," Proceedings of the 25th National ACM Conference, (pp. 791-797), August 1972.

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• Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Hip Hop, Epitome

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• Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.

  Harry S. Truman

  Religious, Presidential, Church

  Harry S. Truman (2015). “Where the Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman”, p.146, New Word City

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• Man thinks his mind's love for world power and his heart's love for world peace can live together. Indeed, this is the height of man's stupidity.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Peace, Heart, Men

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• The country will some day pay for the stupidities of those who were in the majority on this commission. They know as much about the future of aviation as they do about the sign writing of the Aztecs.

  Jimmy Doolittle

  Country, Writing, Majority

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• Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Mistake, Lying

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• The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.

  Barney Frank

  War, Iraq, Problem

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• It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

  C. S. Lewis

  Poverty, Humans, Overwork

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• How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been forced to vegetate in his primitive stupidity: he has been taught stories about invisible powers upon whom his happiness was supposed to depend. Occupied solely by his fears, and by unintelligible reveries, he has always been at the mercy of priests, who have reserved to themselves the right of thinking for him, and of directing his actions.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

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• I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.

  Warren G. Harding

  Climbing, Balls, Stuff

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• You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity people doing stupid things without realising or, instead, thinking they were doing good.

  Tom Lehrer

  Fun, Stupid, Thinking

  "Stop clapping, this is serious". Sydney Morning Herald Interview, www.smh.com.au. March 1, 2003.

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• Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Stupid, Ignorance, Feelings

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• If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Photography, Art, Real

  1859 'Salon of 1859', section 2, in Curiosites Esthetiques (1868).

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• What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living than was assumed by those exploiting them. The more we are willing to see about their lives, the more we will see. Humans seem to take perverse pleasure in attributing stupidity to animals when it is almost always entirely a question of human ignorance.

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

  Ignorance, Animal, Sophisticated

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (2010). “The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food”, p.96, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war - the brutal corrupting viciousness of its doing to the minds and bodies of men; and, that my photographs might be a powerful emotional catalyst to the reasoning which would help this vile and criminal stupidity from beginning again.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Powerful, War, Emotional

  W. Eugene Smith (1969). “W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes”

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• Nowadays, hoy en día, with our world full of war and violence and lack of love, a world full of greed, a world of domination, grasping power, venal stupidity, real evil, don’t get me started, it’s good to know that a conversation about tacos will always engender a sense of comfort and happiness. If only we could sit down at a big round world table and eat tacos in a spirit of love we might begin to work on world peace!

  Denise Chavez

  Real, War, Our World

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• I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Grief, Heart, Mind

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• The most abundant element in the Universe is stupidity

  Frank Zappa

  Hydrogen Fuel, Elements, Universe

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• Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

  Alexander Berkman

  Inhumanity

  Alexander Berkman (1912). “Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist”

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• Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Past, Errors, Years

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.282, Faber & Faber

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• Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Moving, Able, Used

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