Stupidity Quotes - Page 33

• We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating will admit that we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, World, Speak

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• Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.

  William Hazlitt

  Running, Competition, Intellectual

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1467, Delphi Classics

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• How can you fight stupidity effectively? The answer is simple: it's not easy.

  William C. Brown

  Fighting, Simple, Answers

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• One of the main purpose of art has ever been that of making its indispensable contribution to the growth of entropy of the universal stupidity.

  William C. Brown

  Art, Growth, Purpose

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• Since the universe is stupid, it's no wonder that social Darwinism tends to support, promote and finance the evolution of fools.

  William C. Brown

  Stupid, Support, Fool

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• Examples of human stupidity. Blasphemy in Pakistan can now include spelling errors by children or throwing away a card bearing the name "Muhammad".

  William C. Brown

  Children, Errors, Names

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• The common curse of mankind, folly, ignorance and stupidity.

  William C. Brown

  Ignorance, Common, Mankind

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• To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

  David Hume

  Events, Ordinary, Wickedness

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• If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create!

  William C. Brown

  Pain, Order, Suffering

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• Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the universe, especially among political, bureaucratic, judicial, religious, intellectual, artistic, and mass media members, so it is the best place to develop your own field research.

  William C. Brown

  Country, Religious, Media

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• As far as humanity is concerned the origin of stupidity is itself.

  William C. Brown

  Humanity, Concerned

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• The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.

  Giordano Bruno

  Law, World, Fool

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• When you are a great scholar of stupidity, logics and marketing, you can do practically everthing, from business to trading, from spiritual research to artistic criticism.

  William C. Brown

  Spiritual, Marketing, Criticism

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• Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stupid, World, Boring

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• The very valuable time of the humanity often passes with the incredible stupidities and with the local matters not worth a penny!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Humanity, Matter, Pennies

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• Stupid religion makes stupid beliefs, stupid leaders make stupid rules, stupid environment makes stupid health, stupid companions makes stupid behaviour, stupid movies makes stupid acts, stupid food makes stupid skin, stupid bed makes stupid sleep, stupid ideas makes stupid decisions, stupid clothes makes stupid appearance. Lets get rid of stupidity from our stupid short lives.

  Michael Bassey

  Short Life, Stupid, Sleep

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• The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate like an electrocuted criminal.

  Michael Bassey

  Gossip, Criminals, Mouths

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• You can't legislate against stupidity, but we try to do it all the time.

  Jesse Ventura

  "Wrestling With Reform" by Scott S. Smith, www.entrepreneur.com. January 1, 2000.

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• Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.

  David Gemmell

  People, Logic, Form

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• Only worry about your own happiness, which doesn’t have to be limited by anyone else’s stupidity unless you allow it to be.

  James Altucher

  Worry

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• If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can come up with, then we're not likely to be in a real position to do much about it when it comes to attacking the root cause of the problem. Instead of demanding a more equitable system for the distribution of social and economic goods, we blame the victim. This is insidious, because ideology is something we carry around with us in our heads; it forms the basis of our day-to-day understanding of the world.

  Bob Torres

  Real, Believe, Roots

  Bob Torres (2007). “Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights”, p.7, AK Press

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• I think we can rule out 'mixed brain dominance' as a cause of your poor performance at school, Charlie Brown" "Have you ruled out stupidity?" "Peanuts", Charles M

  Charles M. Schulz

  School, Thinking, Brain

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• If a man didn't make sense, the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation, for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Scotch, Knowing

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• No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Men, Genius

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• To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

  Sophy Burnham

  Believe, Eye, Skins

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