Stupidity Quotes - Page 25

• In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Country, Animal, Intelligent

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• Tell a man something is bad, and he's not at all sure he wants to give it up. Describe it as stupid, and he knows it's the better part of caution to listen.

  David Seabury

  Stupid, Men, Giving

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• When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

  Isaac Asimov

  Intelligent, Unsafe

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• The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity.

  Alexander Theroux

  Faces, Ears, Body

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• I'm a member of no party. I have no ideology. I'm a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle between science and reason and the barbarism, superstition and stupidity that's all around us.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Party, Struggle, Superstitions

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Stupidity well packaged can sound like wisdom.

  Burton Malkiel

  Sound, Wells

  Burton G. Malkiel (2007). “A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Bravery and Stupidity can often be mistaken for the other.

  Marc Marcel

  Often Is, Bravery, Mistaken

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• Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.

  Jonathan Gruber

  Ignorance, Stupid People, Obamacare

  "Advocate's Comments On ACA Now A Liability For Law's Supporters". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 9, 2014.

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• The brilliant Schiller was wrong in his Joan of Arc when he said against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. It is actually by means of the gods that we make our stupidity and gullibility into something ineffable.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mean, Brilliant, Vain

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.57, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas

  Milan Kundera

  Mean, Ignorance, Ideas

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• Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Childhood, Prejudice, Blame

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• Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Journey, Goal

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• While man can still his body keep
  Wine or love drug him to sleep,
  Waking he thanks the Lord that he
  Has body and its stupidity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wine, Sleep, Men

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.298, Wordsworth Editions

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• Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.

  Mason Cooley

  Facts, Facts Of Life

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• The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Wind, Lessons

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• God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools...and He has not been disappointed....If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

  Antonin Scalia

  God, Christian, Wise

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• Men's clothing hasn't changed in 200 years, maybe a lapel gets a little wider or a tie gets narrower from time to time. But it's usually always the same. There is stupidity in men's fashion. But women know who they are. They can change. Clothing is seductive for women. They get different personas by buying new clothes. But men don't.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Fashion, Men, Years

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• Those who understood, in fact, say: 'I mustn't do this, I mustn't do that,' so as not to commit some stupidity or other! Splendid! But at a certain point we realize that all life is stupidity; so tell me yourself what it means never to have done anything foolish. At the very least it means you have never lived.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Mean, Done, Facts

  Luigi Pirandello (1987). “The late Mattia Pascal”, Eridanos Library

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• Chris Davis [of the Davisfunds] has a temple of shame. He celebrates the things they did that lost them a lot of money. What is also needed is a temple of shame squared for things you didn't do that would have made you rich. Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition. Reality doesn't remind you. Why not celebrate stupidities in both categories?

  Charlie Munger

  Mistake, Reality, Errors

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  Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Fighting, Answers, Unpredictable

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• Exploiting the stupidity of the American voter is fun and easy: kinda like squeezing a lemon.

  Jonathan Gruber

  Fun, American Voters, Easy

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• Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Elude Us, Computer, Artificial Intelligence

  P. J. O'Rourke (2011). “Holidays in Heck”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Cultural stupidity accounts for virtually every aspect of Sarah Palin, both as a person and a political icon. Which, come to think of it, may be a pretty good reason not to misunderstimate her.

  Joe Bageant

  Thinking, Icons, Political

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• A lottery is a tax on stupidity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Taxes, Lottery

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• It's usually easier to rouse stupidity to action than to arouse wisdom to effort, for wisdom sees alternatives while stupidity lacks the imagination to do this. All sinister interests in a country can depend ultimately upon the strength of stupidity.

  Chapman Cohen

  Country, Imagination, Effort

  Chapman Cohen (1900). “Opinions, Random Reflections, and Wayside Sayings”

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