Stupidity Quotes - Page 12

Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.

The world is laughing at us. They're laughing at the stupidity of our President [Barack Obama]. Remember he drew the line in the sand - the line is in the sand.

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.

Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not "idealistic," no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.

One whose troops repeatedly congregate in small groups here and there, whispering together, has lost the masses. One who frequently grants rewards is in deep distress. One who frequently imposes punishments is in great difficulty. One who is at first excessively brutal and then fears the masses is the pinnacle of stupidity.

Simplicity is not the same as stupidity

Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.

You're dumber than you think I think you are.

In summary, Intelligence Intensification is desirable, because there is not a single problem confronting humanity that is not either caused or considerably worsened by the prevailing stupidity (insensitivity) of the species: badly wired robots bumping into and maiming and killing each other.

A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread.

I can't remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.

That's a wise substitution by Terry Venables: three fresh man, three fresh legs.

Equality is. one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler--a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hard-earned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity.

Only worry about your own happiness, which doesn’t have to be limited by anyone else’s stupidity unless you allow it to be.

Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.

Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible

Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.