Stupidity Quotes - Page 38

• I want to live as long as possible, just to see how stupid it gets.

  Susan Sontag

  Stupid, Long, Want

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• There is no dunce like a mature dunce.

  George Santayana

  Mature, Dunces

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.30, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

  Jane Austen

  Sister, Stupid, Party

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• Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.

  Edward Abbey

  Thinking, Kind, Trouble

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

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• There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

  Edward Abbey

  Greed, World, Modern

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal". Book by Edward Abbey (Chapter 11 "Money Et Cetera", p. 100), 1989.

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• Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties.

  John Stuart Mill

  Stupid, Circles, Feelings

  John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill (2015). “Essays on Sex Equality”, p.151, University of Chicago Press

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• I'm the Vice-President. They know it, and they know that I know it.

  Dan Quayle

  President, Vices, Fool

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• They asked me to go in front of the Reagans. I'm not used to going in front of President Reagan, so we went out behind the Bushes.

  Dan Quayle

  President, Fool, Used

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• I am the harvest of man's stupidity. I am the fruit of the holocaust. I prayed like you to survive, but look at me now. It is over for us who are dead, but you must struggle, and will carry the memories all your life. People back home will wonder why you can't forget.

  Eugene B. Sledge

  Life, Memories, War

  Eugene B Sledge (2010). “With the Old Breed: The World War Two Pacific Classic”, p.272, Random House

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• Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

  Frank Herbert

  Conformity, Remember, Bureaucracy

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.96, Penguin

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• I am not a perfect being. . . . I have more faults than I know what to do with. I have a naughty temper. I am stubborn, impatient of hindrances and of stupidity. I have not in the truest sense a Christian spirit. I am naturally a fighter. I am lazy. I put off till tomorrow what I might better do today. I do not feel that I have been compensated for the two senses I lack. I have worked hard for all the senses I have got, and always I beg for more.

  Helen Keller

  Christian, Naughty, Two

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.4, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Unhappiness does make people look stupid.

  Anatole France

  Stupid, People, Doe

  Anatole France (2015). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard: Works by France”, p.154, 谷月社

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• I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

  Debi Thomas

  Dream, Stupid, Goal

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• Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.

  E. M. Forster

  Memories, Stupid, People

  E. M. Forster (1954). “Aspects Of the Novel”

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• . . . it seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.

  Karl Popper

  People, Wickedness, Certain

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.575, Routledge

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• Against a stupidity that is in fashion, no wisdom compensates.

  Theodor Fontane

  Fashion, Ignorance

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• [On President Bush's plan to get to Mars in 10 years] Stupid. Robots would do a better job and be much cheaper because you don't have to bring them back.

  Stephen Hawking

  Jobs, Stupid, Science

  "The Science of Second-Guessing". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 2004.

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• War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.

  John Dos Passos

  Peace, Cancer, Lying

  John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press

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• My girlfriend makes me want to be a better person... so I can get a better girlfriend.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Funny, Girlfriend, Humor

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• There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

  Umberto Eco

  Two, Inability, Affection

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• The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.

  Gary Larson

  Growing Up, Apes, Lord

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• A leapord never changes his stripes.

  Al Gore

  Stripes, Never Change

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• It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

  Thomas Beecham

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, People

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• To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself to be wise.

  Ernest Chapman

  Wise, Believe, Two

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• Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged."

  John Ruskin

  Mother, Stupid, Three

  John Ruskin, David Carrier, Walter Pater, Adrian Stokes (1997). “England and Its Aesthetes: Biography and Taste”, p.31, Psychology Press

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