Stupidity Quotes - Page 19

• Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.

  Dan Simmons

  Paid

  Dan Simmons (2009). “Carrion Comfort”, p.190, Macmillan

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• English stupidity is an organism so primitive that it is apparently impossible to kill off. It reminds me of Physarum Polycephalum, the gigantic slime mould recently bred by scientists at Bonn. Bright yellow and about two millimetres thick, this monocellular creature--neither plant nor animal--grew to a size of 10 square yards before the scientists took fright and froze it. It can smell its favourite food, and move towards it at a speed of up to two centimetres an hour. This favourite food is porridge.

  Neal Ascherson

  Moving, Animal, Two

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• I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal.

  Nelson Rodrigues

  Envy, Eternal

  "Flor de Obsessão: as 1000 melhores frases de Nelson Rodrigues". Book by Nelson Rodrigues, 1992.

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• I recalled when I worked in the woods and the bars of Madras, Oregon. That short-haired joy and roughness America your stupidity. I could almost love you again.

  Gary Snyder

  Love You, Oregon, America

  Gary Snyder (1992). “No nature: new and selected poems”, Pantheon

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• The novice-friendly software is more like a misbehaving dog: it shits on the floor, it destroys things, and stinks - the novice-friendly software embodies the opposite of what computer people have dreamed of for decades: artificial stupidity. It's more human.

  Erik Naggum

  Dog, Opposites, People

  "Read the fine manual, please". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. November 14, 1997.

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• Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species.

  Robert B. Leighton

  Believe, Men, Sloth

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• According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of man. Wars result from selfishness, from misdirected aggressive impulses, from stupidity.

  Kenneth Waltz

  War, Men, Important

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.16, Columbia University Press

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• We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity.

  Don Kardong

  Ultras, Runners

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• Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity.

  William Shenstone

  Hands, Assurance, Connected

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.66

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• 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

  Lazy, Talent, Study

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• I owe all my success to stupidity.

  Tom Monaghan

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• Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.

  John D. Voelker

  Winning, Persistence, Sea

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• Tantric Buddhists don't believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Philosophy, Believe

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• In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

  Walter Bagehot

  Book, Writing, Genius

  Walter Bagehot (1986). “The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: Miscellany”

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• Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of our society - violence, drunkenness, drugs, racism, exploitation, greed and stupidity; and that's just for starters.

  Simon Heffer

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• Could there be a better answer to the stupidity of Karl Marx than millions of workers individually sharing in the ownership of the means of production.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wisdom, Mean, Answers

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• We can no longer ignore the stupidity of the hits that are still happening today despite the fact that the players know the concussion aspect is such a big part of the game and sports in general.

  Jeremy Roenick

  Sports, Player, Nhl

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• My films are misinterpreted all the time. I don't mind that. Everybody's films are misinterpreted. But there's no malice or stupidity in the people that misinterpret them. You know what you do, but someone else sees it, and they want to talk about it or write about it, and so they misinterpret them.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, People, Mind

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 13, 2008.

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• If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.

  Terry Gilliam

  Unique, Skins, Needs

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Trying, Fundamentals, Firsts

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• Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Limits

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• Scientists believe that the universe is made of hydrogen because they claim it's the most plentiful ingredient. I claim that the most plentiful ingredient is stupidity.

  Frank Zappa

  Believe, Hydrogen, Ingredients

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• Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.

  Jean Cocteau

  Encounters, Matter

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• To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please--respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence; but we can't pardon our equals going beyond us.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Envy, Laughing, Suffering

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• Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Ambition, Serious, Folly

  "Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society". Book by Nicolas Chamfort, 1795.

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