Stupidity Quotes - Page 8

• One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.

  Claudine Guerin de Tencin

  Mistake, Stupid, Believe

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• When the wisdom speaks, be quite and listen! When the stupidity speaks, stand up and leave!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Speak

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• A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Life, Wise

  Twitter post from Oct 30, 2009

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• Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.

  Walter Bagehot

  Consistency, Opinion, Resources

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• Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Ignorance, Obedience, Authority

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Love is being stupid together.

  Paul Valery

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

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• The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.

  Peter Ustinov

  Stupid, Intelligent, Men

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• As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Media, Doe, Degradation

  "Pop Sovereign: A Conversation With Madonna". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Stupid, People, Brave

  "Wallenstein's Lager", XI. 347 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 758), 1922.

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• The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Honest, Clarity, Sincere

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• The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Ignorance, Internet

  Roughing It ch. 48 (1872)

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• The dying man doesn't struggle much and he isn't much afraid. As his alkalies give out he succumbs to a blest stupidity. His mindfogs. His will power vanishes. He submits decently. He scarcely gives a damn.

  H. L. Mencken

  Death, Struggle, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.139, Vintage

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• There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement of IQ.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Measurement, Given, Consistent

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• Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorance, Differentiate

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• But one thing I realized with my brother is that you can’t toss your pearls before the swine. I think that’s why my mother insisted you give anonymously. The instant anyone sees that you’re kind and giving, they immediately take advantage of it. They seem to mistake kindness for weakness and giving for stupidity. (Aiden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Brother, Kindness

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Upon The Midnight Clear”, p.151, Macmillan

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• The United States has degenerated into a social order that is awash in public stupidity and views critical thought as both a liability and a threat. Not only is this obvious in the presence of a celebrity culture that embraces the banal and idiotic, but also in the prevailing discourses and policies of a range of politicians and anti-public intellectuals who believe that the legacy of the Enlightenment needs to be reversed.

  Henry Giroux

  Believe, Views, Order

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

  Mark Twain

  Ties, Four, Littles

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.458, Courier Corporation

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• The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Battle, Defense, Moral

  Alfred North Whitehead (1933). “Adventure of Ideas”

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• Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.

  Josh Billings

  Ignorance, Unconscious

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• Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity. The evil all arose from the fact that he had increased his needs rather than limited them; . . . As long as fresh needs continued to be created, so new frustrations would come into being. When had the decline begun? The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution - not a social or political revolution - only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Country, Loss, Frustration

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les Belles Images”

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• Observe the life like a wise tree by the side of a calm lake! Do not move; just sit and observe! Observe the Sun, observe the storms; observe the wisdom, observe the stupidities!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Wise, Moving

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• Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a desire for revenge, we are meeting lawlessness with stupidity and making a travesty of justice.

  Mary B. Harris

  Revenge, Character, Government

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• Stupidity-The top of the list for Satanic Sins.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Satanic, Lists, Sin

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• Do you know what chaos stands for? C-H-A-O-S stands for Critical Hate And Overwhelming Stupidity.

  Gary Busey

  Hate, Chaos, Overwhelming

  Interview with Chet Cooper and Lia Martirosyan, abilitymagazine.com. April 2014.

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• Mainstream media: 80% stuff someone told them. 10% stupidity. 10% arrogance.

  Seth Roberts

  Media, Arrogance, Stuff

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