Stupidity Quotes - Page 10

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.

Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.

If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see the opportunities in modern science are not adroit enough to outmaneuver the forces of inertia, stupidity and greed. Well, if we're not intelligent enough to overcome such obstacles, then we don't deserve to carry off the mutation at this stage of evolution.

The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. The next best vegetable is the jalapeno pepper. It has the virtue of turning salads into practical jokes.

Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.

One can overlook stupidity, until it evolves into malice.

The best way to fight stupidity, is by ignoring it.

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius with its omnipresent and fierce stupidity. Such a headless people has the mind of a worm and the claws of a dragon.

There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

Hot oil! We need hot oil!... Forget the water balloons!

Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.

I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.

Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.

Why is the competition always so intense to set new records for maximum stupidity?

Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

Those who realise their folly are not true fools.

What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of that ancient Greek who wanted to die under the brilliant sun. What I wanted was some natural, spontaneous suicide. I wanted a death like that of a fox, not yet well versed in cunning, that walks carelessly along a mountain path and is shot by a hunter because of its own stupidity.

In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.

Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.

‎The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.