Stupidity Quotes - Page 11

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

You can't argue with stupidity.

He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.

Nature abhors a moron.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.

Scientists believe that the universe is made of hydrogen because they claim it's the most plentiful ingredient. I claim that the most plentiful ingredient is stupidity.

American gentlemen are a cross between English and French men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest than Frenchmen, and less manly, shy, and rough, than Englishmen. Their brains are finer and flimsier, their bodies less robust and vigorous than ours. We are the finer animals, and they the subtler spirits. Their intellectual tendency is to excitement and insanity, and ours to stagnation and stupidity.

The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

Hillary Clinton lies a lot. She has bad judgment. She created ISIS with her stupidity.

Stupidity well packaged can sound like wisdom.

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.

Stupidity is falling pray to your own illusions.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.

He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.

The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate like an electrocuted criminal.

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

Anger makes us all stupid.

It's wonderful to find cultures that are historically still intact, as opposed to a lot of Western cultures which seem to me to be slowly dying, stuck in celebrity illness or stupidity.

Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.

There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.