Stupidity Quotes - Page 5

• Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

  Frank Zappa

  Block, Stupid, Humor

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• what's life without a spice of stupidity

  Nancy Springer

  Spices

  Nancy Springer (2003). “Outlaw Princess of Sherwood”, p.23, Penguin

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• Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.

  Horace Greeley

  No Friends, Want

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• The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.

  Will Rogers

  People, Intellectual, Forgiving

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Stupid, Philosophical, Las Vegas

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.73, Vintage

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• As Albert Einstein once said to me: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity." But what is much more widespread than the actual stupidity is the playing stupid, turning off your ear, not listening, not seeing.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Stupid, Two, Listening

  "Gestalt Theory Verbatim". Book by Frederick Salomon Perls, p. 33, 1969.

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• Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

  Karl Kraus

  Morning, Up Early, Events

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• The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Stupid, Silly, Doctors

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

  John Dewey

  Money, Stupid, Good Luck

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Murray G. Murphey (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922”, p.210, SIU Press

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• Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Stupid, Intelligent, Men

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• Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

  Carlo M. Cipolla

  Stupid, Numbers, Underestimate

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• An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Philosophy, Crazy

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• For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

  Aldous Huxley

  Religious, Spring, Idols

  Aldous Huxley (2003). “Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience”, Crossroad 8 Avenue

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• I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Fool, Honest, Kind

  Giacomo Casanova “The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt”, Library of Alexandria

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• He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Doctors, Heirs

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

  Heinrich Heine

  Stupid, Bipolar, Insane

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• There are more fools in the world than there are people.

  Heinrich Heine

  Silly, Stupid People, Fool

  "One Big Fib: The Incredible Story of the Fraudulent First International Bank of Grenada". Book by Owen Platt, p. 37, 2003.

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• The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

  Lord Byron

  Funny, Literature, Ends

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• Ultimate stupidity: Mistakenly thinking you will get what you want by complaining about and focusing on exactly what you don't want.

  John Phillips

  Thinking, Complaining, Want

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• A fool and his money are soon elected.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

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• Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today. I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity. 'Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion.' Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

  Salman Rushdie

  Religious, Art, Real

  "Salman Rushdie: ‘I Stand With Charlie Hebdo, as We All Must’". blogs.wsj.com. January 07, 2015.

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• "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fear, Hate, Hard Work

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 124), 1963.

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  The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

  Milan Kundera

  People, Answers, Novel

  "Siraaj: An Arab Tale". Book by Radwa Ashour and Barbara Romaine, 2007.

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• Ender stepped under the water and rinsed himself, took the sweat of combat and let it run down the drain. All gone, except they recycled it and we'll be drinking Bonzo's blood water in the morning. All the life gone out of it, but his blood just the same, his blood and my sweat, washed down in their stupidity or cruelty or whatever it was that made them let it happen.

  Orson Scott Card

  Life, Running, Morning

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.139, Macmillan

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