Stupidity Quotes - Page 2

• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Drinking, Ignorance, Stupid People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.110, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

  Bertrand Russell

  Clever, Smart, Stupid

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• Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mistake, Failure, Philosophical

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• Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

  William Gaddis

  Stupid, Ignorance, Cultivation

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  Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Stupid, School

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.578, Routledge

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• In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Stupid, Power, Intellectual

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  There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Sports, Sarcastic

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• Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Stupid, Silly, May

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.96, University of Chicago Press

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• When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Sad, Military

  Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 3

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• Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

  W. Clement Stone

  Truth, Ignorance, Understanding

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• What keeps people from living together is their stupidity, not their differences.

  Anna Gavalda

  Differences, People, Together

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• Stupidity is a blockage in the ability to receive, integrate and transmit new signals.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Integrating, Signals, Ability

  "The Illuminati Papers" by Robert Anton Wilson, December 11, 1997.

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• Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.

  Howard Zinn

  Inspirational, Death, Running

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• If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Optimism

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.488, Wordsworth Editions

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• The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

  Wayne Dyer

  Karma, Clever, Ignorance

  "Open Letter to Michelle Duggar - Ignorance is Not Bliss" by Mary J. Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 22, 2014.

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• The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.

  Peter Ustinov

  Stupid, Knowledge, Men

  Peter Ustinov (1978). “Dear Me”, Penguin Books

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• It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Stupid, Silly

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.56, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Thinking, World, Speak

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.286

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• Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.

  Thomas Sowell

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

  Thomas Sowell (2002). “Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

  Nevil Shute

  Stupid, Arguing, Accepting

  Nevil Shute (1951). “Round the bend”

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• If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

  Scott Adams

  Funny, Smart, Stupid

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  It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

  Franz Kafka

  Able

  Franz Kafka (2016). “Collected Works (Complete Editions: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Trial, ...)”, p.106, Franz Kafka

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• Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

  Albert Camus

  Stupid, Way, Knack

  Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

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• The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.

  Albert Einstein

  Stupid, Height, Individual

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• There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  War, Stupid, Aggressive

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