Stupidity Quotes - Page 36

• Vik? You ready? (Devyn) Your stupidity is what I live for, Captain. (Vik)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Captains, Ready

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• What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of that ancient Greek who wanted to die under the brilliant sun. What I wanted was some natural, spontaneous suicide. I wanted a death like that of a fox, not yet well versed in cunning, that walks carelessly along a mountain path and is shot by a hunter because of its own stupidity.

  Yukio Mishima

  Suicide, Sky, Greek

  Yukio Mishima (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, New Directions Publishing

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• To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange enigmatic ways of the world which she will spend lifetime trying to learn and understand.

  Sylvia Plath

  Women, Learning, Laughing

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• Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said, 'but sometimes there's a fine line between courage and stupidity.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Father, Fighting, Important

  Carl Hiaasen (2014). “Carl Hiaasen Collection: Hoot, Flush, Scat, Chomp”, p.58, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people.

  Bill Maher

  Axes, America, People

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• Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Underestimate, Wealth, Stakes

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• What I’m sorry about is not being a tipsy idiot when you found me. I’m sorry about that, obviously, but more sorry that my stupidity caused us to lose a great opportunity. I don’t imagine you would have met me and fallen crazy in love with me, but I would like to think that if you’d had a chance to meet me under different circumstances, something just as nice could have happened. We could have become friends.

  Rachel Cohn

  Sorry, Crazy, Nice

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.170, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• They say great times make great men. I don't buy it. I saw a lot of weakness, a lot of filth. People who should have risen to the challenge and either couldn't or wouldn't. Greed, fear, stupidity and hate. I saw it before the war, I see it today. [...] I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

  Max Brooks

  Hate, War, Men

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• I would be shocked by the lack of security if we were not at Amity headquarters. They often straddle the line between trust and stupidity.

  Veronica Roth

  Would Be, Lines, Headquarters

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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• Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]

  Fernando Pessoa

  Morning, Zenith, Awakening

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• Darling, my darling, don't think that I don't love you or that I didn't love you, but it's precisely because I love you that I couldn't have become what I am today if you were still here. It's impossible to have a child and despise the world as it is, because that's the world we've put the child into. The child makes us care about the world, think about it's future, willingly join in its racket and its turmoils, take its incurable stupidity seriously.

  Milan Kundera

  Children, Love You, Thinking

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• Most people are chained to their own fear and stupidity and haven’t the sense to level a cold eye at just what is wrong with their lives. Most people will continue on, dissatisfied but never attempting to understand why, or how they might change things for the better, and they die with nothing in their hearts but dirt and old, thin blood - weak blood, diluted - and their memories aren’t worth a goddamned thing.

  Patrick deWitt

  Memories, Heart, Eye

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• If we have a simple existence, we shall feel how happy and how fortunate we are. There are some people who are of the opinion that simplicity is almost tantamount to stupidity. But simplicity and stupidity are like the North Pole and the South Pole. One can be as simple as a child and, at the same time, one can have boundless knowledge, light and wisdom.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Children, Simple, Light

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• Fine, than I will not have to blame you for killing my friends with your stupidity. -Haymitch

  Suzanne Collins

  Blame, Killing, Fine

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• Suddenly self-conscious, she shifted from one booted foot to the other. "I asked the cloud for battle-ready clothing, and this is what I got. There are slits all over the pants, for easy access to the weapons, I'm guessing. But the bustier has me stumped. Unless, of course, the cloud thinks my cleavage will stun my opponents into stupidity." -Annabelle

  Gena Showalter

  Thinking, Clouds, Self

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• Never confuse honor with stupidity!

  R. A. Salvatore

  Honor

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• When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Stupid, Want, Tvs

  "Stupidity". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• There's no defense against stupidity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Defense

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• I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison

  Kim Harrison

  Black, Magic, Trying

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• Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Thinking, Decision

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• The future will be a better tomorrow.

  Dan Quayle

  Future, Fool, Tomorrow

  YouTube Chanel "xanopher"/ "Dan Quayle Video Collage (Bloopers)", www.youtube.com. October 8, 2006.

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• We are drowning in information
  but starved for knowledge.

  John Naisbitt

  Reading, Book, Knowledge

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• Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be self-evident to everyone. But the surprising fact is that cultured and learned people not only do not notice the harm and stupidity of patriotism, they resist every unveiling of it with the greatest obstinacy and passion (with no rational grounds), and continue to praise it as beneficent and elevating.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Passion, Self, Blood

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• The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stupid, Power, Men

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• We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the teaching of the Christian church is permeated.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Christian, Religious, Lying

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