Stupidity Quotes - Page 30

• In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to understand nature and not merely to observe it and endure what it imposes on us. Stupidity, from being an amiable individual defect, has become a social crime.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Giving Up, Science, Simple

  John Desmond Bernal (1967). “The origin of life”

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• Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Masculinity

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.8, 谷月社

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• My disciples are vegetarian not as a cult, not as a creed. They are vegetarians because their meditations make them more human, more of the heart, and they can see the whole stupidity of people killing living beings for their food. It is their sensitivity, their aesthetic awareness that makes them vegetarians.

  Rajneesh

  Heart, People, Meditation

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• Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, Men, Giving

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.315, Hamilton Books

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• The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny, Humor, Brain

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Try stuff. I also used to believe that it's better to be smart than lucky because if you're smart you can out-think the competition. I don't believe that anymore-this is not to say that you should strive for a high level of stupidity. My point is that luck is a big part of many successes, so (a) don't get too bummed out when you see a bozo succeed; and (b) luck favors the people who try stuff, not simply think and analyze. As the Chinese say, "One must wait for a long time with your mouth open before a Peking duck flies in your mouth."

  Guy Kawasaki

  Smart, Believe, Thinking

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• Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Stupid, Character

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.274, Modern Library

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• Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not "idealistic," no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Lust, Desire

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• Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.

  George Herbert

  Stupid, Taken, Science

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• Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Fighting, Catholic Religion

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Regret, Religion

  Letter to Edgar Meyer, January 2, 1915.

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• There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.

  Dennis Miller

  Fear, People, Common Sense

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• To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to return step by step to imbecility, from the time of lisping to that of doting; to live among knaves and charlatans of all kinds; to die between one man who takes your pulse and another who troubles your head; never to know where you come from, why you come and where you are going! That is what is called the most important gift of our parents and nature. Life.

  Denis Diderot

  Pain, Fear, Ignorance

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• One of the most stupid things to do is to pretend you are smart. When you pretend to be smart, you are at the height of stupidity.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Smart, Stupid

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• Life is a flux, nothing abides. Still we are such fools, we go on clinging. If change is the nature of life, then clinging is stupidity, because your clinging is not going to change the law of life. Your clinging is only going to make you miserable. Things are bound to change; whether you cling or not does not matter. If you cling you become miserable: you cling and they change, you feel frustrated. If you don`t cling they still change, but then there is no frustration because you were perfectly aware that they are bound to change. This is how things are, this is the suchness of life.

  Rajneesh

  Frustration, Law, Frustrated

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• Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

  Frank Zappa

  Ignorance, Doe, Charm

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.

  Bruce Catton

  Suffering, Causes, Indifference

  Bruce Catton (1984). “Bruce Catton's Civil War: three volumes in one”, Outlet

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• Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Religion, Might, Christianity

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• They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it.

  Gracie Allen

  Arcs, Built, Laughed

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• The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.

  William Shakespeare

  May, Folly, Amity

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.250, Cambridge University Press

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• Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

  Louis Agassiz

  Stupid, Law, Connections

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• There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Success, Stupid, Two

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• What men need is, as much knowledge as they can assimilate and organize into a basis for action; give them more and it may become injurious. One knows people who are as heavy and stupid from undigested learning .

  Thomas Huxley

  Stupid, Men, Giving

  "A Library of Universal Literature in Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations".

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• Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.

  George Eliot

  Stupid, Sarcasm, Blow

  George Eliot (2013). “The Complete Novels of George Eliot: Adam Bede + The Lifted Veil + The Mill on the Floss + Silas Marner + Romola + Brother Jacob + Felix Holt the Radical + Middlemarch + Daniel Deronda”, p.2215, e-artnow

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• Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Clever, Stupid, Quality

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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