Stupidity Quotes - Page 13

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.

What do you take me for, an idiot?

One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet.

I'm only going one way.

No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

At great expense, we have built a vast system of inter-connecting stupidities.

There are two fools in every marketplace; one asks too little, one asks too much.

An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle and vanished.

In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.

How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose).

There is an urgent need to-day for the citizens of a democracy to think well. It is not enough to have freedom of the Press and parliamentary institutions. Our difficulties are due partly to our own stupidity, partly to the exploitation of that stupidity, and partly to our own prejudices and personal desires.

I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me.

Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.

He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.

Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

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

When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature.

...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".

Mass democracy guarantees stupidity. Masses of people, even if they're individually intelligent, can only act stupidly.