Stupidity Quotes - Page 28

• The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they say they are, not with a lurking suspicion in the therapist's mind that they may, in fact, be otherwise. This attitude is not stupidity on the therapist's part; it is the kind of attitude that is most likely to lead to trust.

  Carl Rogers

  Attitude, Caring, Mind

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• Never underestimate human stupidity.

  Pittacus Lore

  Stupid, Underestimate, Humans

  Pittacus Lore (2012). “I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Fallen Legacies”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Stupid, Mistake, Ignorance

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• Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

  Karin Slaughter

  Sometimes, Reason, Ifs

  Karin Slaughter (2014). “The Will Trent Series 7-Book Bundle: Triptych, Fractured, Undone, Broken, Fallen, Criminal, Unseen”, p.395, Bantam

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• I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!

  John Green

  Teaching, Reading, Thinking

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• I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s - my madness would not be an escape from “reality”.

  Frida Kahlo

  Pain, Crazy, Flower

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• Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

  Thomas Mann

  Different, Kind, Worst

  "The Magic Mountain".

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• what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected to every possible and imaginable contingency and contradiction, Life. Life is crime, theft, jealousy, hunger, lies, disgust,stupidity, sickness, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, piles of corpses. what can you do about it, my poor friend?

  Blaise Cendrars

  Jealousy, Lying, Volcanoes

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• I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.

  Milan Kundera

  Dirty, Wine, People

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• They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and of the heartbroken desire to see a place made whole again.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Heartbroken, Desire, Stories

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.153, Anchor

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• Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Dream, Solitude, Ark

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain”, p.7, Booklassic

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• It takes certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise.

  Gayle Forman

  Kind, Ends, Certain

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• Equality is. one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler--a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hard-earned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity.

  James Kirke Paulding

  Equality, Hands, Political

  Washington Irving, William Irving, James Kirke Paulding (1857). “Salmagundi: Or, The Whim-whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. [pseud.] and Others ....”, p.162

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• Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.

  Maxwell Struthers Burt

  Work, Stupid, Failure

  Maxwell Struthers Burt (1928). “They Could Not Sleep”

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• There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

  Cesare Pavese

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Indifference

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.214, Transaction Publishers

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• There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Stupid, Science, Technology

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• Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Confidence, Atheist

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.6343, Delphi Classics

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• A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

  Gian Carlo Menotti

  Wise, Wisdom, Ignorance

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• The only real stupidity is that of a closed mind.

  Jan Garavaglia

  Real, Athlete, Mind

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• Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or stupidity, I do not know-as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms. Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Design, Religion, Trends

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History”, p.260, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes.

  Thomas More

  Trust, Betrayal, Hero

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• Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

  Joseph Addison

  Stupid, People, Antidote

  "The Drummer". Play by Joseph Addison, 1716.

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• Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted, be hampered and ill-treated in its adolescence - by want of means, by selfish interest, pedantry, stupidity and ignorance; that it be attacked and stifled; that it pass through bitter trials and tribulations, through the heartless strife of commercial existence. So do we get our light. So all that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed - only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

  Nikola Tesla

  Selfish, Struggle, Heart

  "The Transmission Of Electrical Energy Without Wires As A Means For Furthering Peace". "Electrical World and Engineer", (pp. 21-24), January 7, 1905.

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• What do you take me for, an idiot?

  Charles de Gaulle

  Witty, Humorous, Idiot

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• You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

  Sacha Guitry

  Inspirational, Witty, Powerful

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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