Stupidity Quotes - Page 7

• We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

  Paul Gauguin

  Stupid, Silly, Knows

  Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Hate

  Speech in Ottawa on January 10, 1946. "Eisenhower Speaks: Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches". Book edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels, 1948.

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• Here's one thing I never say anymore: These people can't be that stupid, can they?

  George Vecsey

  Stupid, People, One Thing

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• The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

  Carl Jung

  Wise, Stupid, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

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• Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

  Honore de Balzac

  Stupid, People, Heaven

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• Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

  William Faulkner

  Stupid, Silence, Heartbreaking

  William Faulkner (2006). “Novels, 1926-1929”

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• The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Squares, Roots, Numbers

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• Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Stupid, Ignorance, Vain

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.1912, Delphi Classics

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• It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Witty, Stupid

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings"

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• I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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• The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh,” Flamel said quietly. “And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer. Sophie,” he added, without looking at her.

  Michael Scott

  Arrogance, Sophie, Lines

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.528, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when you don't know anything, not even as much as you did when you were younger, and you don't even have a philosophy about all the things you don't know, the way you did when you were twenty or would again when you were thirty-eight.

  Lorrie Moore

  Philosophy, Eight, Twenties

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Dec 25, 2011

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• Don't cater to stupidity.

  Christine Feehan

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• One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stupid, Silly, Want

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• Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

  Edwin Land

  Creativity, Creative, Inspiration And Creativity

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• Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stupid, Execution, Pity

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• To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

  Bill Maher

  Courage, Coward, Looks

  "The Left Grapples With Charlie Hebdo" by Bill Scher, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 12, 2015.

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• Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

  John Major

  Clever, Stupid, Silly

  1991 Quoted in the Observer, 7 Jul.

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• It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism seperately, but when they come together there is no hope.

  Albert Einstein

  Fighting, Together, May

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• Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

  Marcel Proust

  Simple, Intellectual, Literature

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.1170, Delphi Classics

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• No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Wisdom, Stupid, Men

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• I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

  John Malkovich

  Stupid, Thinking, Self

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• I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Funny, Stupid, Thinking

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• Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed - Still with his dulness was he cursed - Dull -beyond all conception - dull.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Stupid, People, Dull

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Peter Bell The Third”

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• Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.

  Marc Estrin

  Gratitude, Inspirational Love, Kindness

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