Stupidity Quotes - Page 31

• Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness.

  Arnold Bennett

  Time, Stupid, Men

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• Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Lying, Stupid

  Alexander Pope (1815). “Poetical works”, p.247

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• Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.

  William Hazlitt

  Order, Way, Fool

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.89

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• If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its symptoms are endless.

  Richard Armour

  Weakness, Endless, Symptoms

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• However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Fool, Bigs, Bigger

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• Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

  Art Buchwald

  Thinking, Television, Wonder

  Art Buchwald (1968). “Have I ever lied to you?”

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• There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Stupid, Opinion, Philosopher

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• Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Stupid, Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.116, Modern Library

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• Stupidity has made enormous progress. It's a sun so shining that we can no longer look at it directly. Thanks to communication media, it's no longer the same, it's nourished by other myths, it sells extremely well, it has ridiculed good sense and it's spreading its terrifying power.

  Ennio Flaiano

  Communication, Media, Shining

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• Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads.

  Andre Glucksmann

  Wickedness, Violent

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• Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Should, Accomplishing Something, Exciting

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• We believe only what we see. So, with television, we believe everything.

  Dieter Hildebrandt

  Believe, Television

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• When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.

  David Hume

  Men, Arrogance, Arrogant

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• All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Fashion, Brain, World

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• Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stupid, Harm, Stupid Things

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• Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

  Robert Musil

  Hands, Clothes, Dresses

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.284, University of Chicago Press

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• The love of power is the demon of mankind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Demon, Desire For Power, Mankind

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.

  Francois Rabelais

  Mirrors, Want, Idiot

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• A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread.

  Leonardo Sciascia

  Regret, Nice, Bread

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• The world supports a multi-million dollar industry of intelligence and ability research, but it devotes virtually nothing to determine why this intelligence is squandered by engaging in amazing, breathtaking acts of stupidity.

  Robert Sternberg

  Support, Dollars, Research

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• Simplicity, very rare in our age.

  Ovid

  Simplicity, Age

  Ovid (2015). “The Offense of Love: Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, and Tristia 2”, p.64, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

  Louise Bogan

  Stupid, Evil, Accompany

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• I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities of the human condition could overwhelm me, now that I realize what we all are. And if only everybody could realize this! But it cannot be explained. There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Race, People

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• The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity—and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Real, Philosophical, Fall

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.279, Princeton University Press

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• The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?

  Ronnie James Dio

  Real, Greed, Patriotism

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

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