Stupidity Quotes - Page 35

• Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Stupid, People, Confusion

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• If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

  George Eliot

  Air, Opinion, Conviction

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.30, George Eliot

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• Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Lying, Stupid, Conclusion

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• The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.

  Gregory Maguire

  Men, Wickedness, Blindness

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.172, Harper Collins

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• Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

  Stephen Fry

  Guarantees, Authenticity, Humour

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• I can’t believe you cheated! (Phobos) I can’t believe you didn’t know it. Man, what kind of god are you? I never knew stupidity had a divine representative. Guess I was wrong, huh? (Deimos)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Men, Kind

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• Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I’m not stupid. (Xypher) I didn’t say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mistake, Stupid, Moving

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• Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

  Max Brooks

  Believe, People, Weakness

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.32, Broadway Books

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• Why would you help us? (Delphine) I hear stupidity is a fatal disease. Doing my own experimentation to see if that’s true or not. If I survive, we’ll know it’s not. If I die…well, it’ll suck. Bad. And I won’t be happy. (Asmodeus)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Disease, Asmodeus, Helping

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.185, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• I want your opinion on the best way to proceed. (Eli) I’d start by killing your son and his crew of idiots before their stupidity spreads to anyone else and infects them. (Varyk)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Son, Want, Way

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• You asked my opinion and I gave it. Of course you have to remember that if I’d been on the island with Gilligan, he’d have been killed ten minutes into the first episode. Where I come from, incompetence and stupidity are reasons for justifiable homicide. (Varyk)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Islands, Firsts, Opinion

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters”, p.467, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• Oh. Sorry about the muzzle. But it was necessary to protect you from your own stupidity. (Thorn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sorry, Muzzle, Protect You

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.144, Macmillan

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• I’m going. But before I do, let me congratulate all of you on your stupidity. (Fury)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Let Me, Fury

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• Why are you helping me? (Fury) I don’t know. Apparently I’m having a moment of extreme stupidity. (Angelia)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Helping, Moments, Fury

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• Men. <...> They're idiots. It's like they all take a vow of stupidity or something.

  Cindy Gerard

  Men, Idiot, Vow

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• When people look you in the eye and call you stupid, dont look away, but tell them that half of the world is stupid and they are one of them because they are dening their own stupidity.

  Meg Cabot

  Stupid, Eye, People

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• We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who try to do so. Is it possible that, in their vanity and stupidity, they suppose that they can erase the name of Thomas Jefferson and replace it with the name of some faith-based mediocrity whose name is already obscure? If so, we cheerfully resolve to mock them, and to give them the lie in their teeth.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Lying, Writing

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• Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Hurt, Reason, Humans

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.50, Penguin

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• Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

  Albert Einstein

  Greed, Three, World

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• It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

  John Knowles

  War, Heart, Ignorant

  John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Fraud

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, p.57, Psychology Press

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• Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Stupid, Common Sense, Way

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.250, St. Martin's Griffin

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• what was fang going to do BLOG about max throwing herself into space so she wouldn't have to kiss him again? NO instead he smashed his fist against the cave wall then grimaced at the pain and stupidity seeing his bloodied knuckles

  James Patterson

  Wall, Pain, Kissing

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• That wasn't love; that was stupidity.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Character

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• This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Stupid, Epidemics, Cures

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