Walter Bagehot Quotes about Stupidity

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

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

Walter Bagehot

Stupidity, Consistency, Opinion

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

Walter Bagehot

Book, Writing, Stupidity

Walter Bagehot (1986). “The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: Miscellany”

What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.

Walter Bagehot

Stupidity, Consistency, Quality

Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1891). “Literary studies ; Religious and metaphysical essays ; Letters on the French coup d'état”