Stupidity Quotes - Page 39

• Why do people in this age think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?

  Poul Anderson

  Thinking, People, Norm

  "The Corridors of Time".

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• Christmas is at our throats again.

  Noel Coward

  Throat

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• Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.

  Johann Most

  Stupid, America, Prejudice

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• My strengths and weaknesses are the same: I've got the willingness and stupidity to try anything. If I think it's even remotely possible, I'll do it.

  Travis Pastrana

  Thinking, Trying, Weakness

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• I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom and stupidity. Tolerance, in the worst sense of the word. How marvelous it would have been to go to a women's college that encouraged impoliteness, that rewarded aggression, that encouraged argument.

  Nora Ephron

  Christian, College, Boredom

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.45, Vintage

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• And this has been man's stupidity - a very ancient one: whenever he gets into difficulty, he changes the word. Change the word marriage into soul mates, but don't change yourself. And you are the problem, not the word; any word will do. A rose is a rose is a rose...you can call it by any name. You are asking to change the concept, you are not asking to change yourself.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Men, Names

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• But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of a theory - such things as truth, or probability, or explanatory power - could not possibly be among the reasons for its currency.

  David Stove

  Libertarian, Merit, Common

  David Stove (2013). “On Enlightenment”, p.17, Transaction Publishers

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• Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Knowledge, Thinking

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.226, Cambridge University Press

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• The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.

  Upton Sinclair

  Sloth, Brain, Mind

  Upton Sinclair (2005). “The Profits of Religion”, p.55, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.

  E. B. Farnum

  Avarice Greed, Sin, Avarice

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• Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear a glorious tale of his insanity! I have not yet clarified, psychoanalytically, this boredom during the recital of other people's dreams. Perhaps I have retained the stiffness of a rationalist. I do not follow the tale of justified incoherence docilely. I always suspect that part of the stupidities being recounted are invented.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Boredom, People

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• There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Differences, Bravery

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• There is no patch for stupidity.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Patches

  Twitter post from Jun 18, 2012

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• Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Eye, Swag, May

  Manfred von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.128, BoD – Books on Demand

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• An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

  David Hare

  Stupid, Inability, Language

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• There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

  Robertson Davies

  Stupid, History, Doctrine

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• It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

  George Gissing

  Stupid, Moving, Individual

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.50, The Floating Press

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• Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Wise, Stupid, Unique

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• What Democrats call 'nuanced,' most people refer to as 'stupidity.'

  Evan Sayet

  Stupid, People, Democrat

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• You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity.

  John Newcombe

  Stupid, Wells, Knows

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• Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal

  Donald E. Williams, Jr.

  Fleeting, Riches, Fame

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• Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind capable of believing that it, a part of the immense world, could absolute

  Erich Heller

  Philosophy, Believe, Philosophical

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• Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Ignorance, Innocence

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• Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout.

  Ashanti

  Rivers, Crocodiles, Lumps

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• If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.

  Ernest Bevin

  Cutting, Feet, Goes On

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