Stupidity Quotes - Page 29

• Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ignorance, Justice, Diversity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Thinking, Justice, Diversity

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.428

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• The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

  Jean Toomer

  Ignorance, Knowing, Justice

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.

  James A. Garfield

  Fall, Patriotic, Organization

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• It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

  Andrew Johnson

  Patriotic, Thinking, Mind

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• There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears.

  Victor Hugo

  Nature, Ignorance, Mean

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• Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

  Alistair Cooke

  Ambition, Golf, Skills

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.61, Arcade Publishing

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• War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

  Alexander Berkman

  Peace, War, Stupid

  Alexander Berkman (2010). “Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

  Eric Hoffer

  Ignorance, Vanity, Ignorant

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• We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Knowledge, One Day

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• Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.

  George S. Patton

  Army, Men, Fixed

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• The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Funny, Knowledge

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• True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Kindness, Stupid, Popularity

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• We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Education, Witty

  FM Observer Interview, fmobserver.com. August 12, 2013.

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• Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle.

  Woody Allen

  Knowledge, Rivers, Belief

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• People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

  Moliere

  People, Praise

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• He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

  Jane Austen

  Giving, Persons

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Ignorant, Care

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.74

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• A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fool, Pedants, Troublesome

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• He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he cannot perceive. And he's a fool a fool who tries to make such a blockhead believe.

  Prince William

  Believe, Trying, Want

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• Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity.

  Andre Gide

  Moving, Doubt, Mountain

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• I have a sense of humor; but over the years that sense has developed one blind spot. I can no longer laugh at ignorance or stupidity. Those are our chief enemies, and it is dangerous to make fun of them.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Fun, Ignorance, Years

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• Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Long, Mark

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• Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

  Bernard Berenson

  Inspirational, Creativity, Ignorance

  Bernard Berenson (1962). “The Bernard Berenson Treasury: A Selection from the Works, Unpublished Writings, Letters, Diaries, and Journals of the Most Celebrated Humanist and Art Historian of Our Times, 1887-1958”

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• Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Father, Intelligent

  "Bill Cosby: Himself", 1983.

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