Stupidity Quotes - Page 16

There is no dunce like a mature dunce.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.

Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.

Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.

It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.

Toaster: A gift that every member of the family appreciates. Automatically burns toast.

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!

This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!

Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

They asked me to go in front of the Reagans. I'm not used to going in front of President Reagan, so we went out behind the Bushes.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.

Don't cater to stupidity.

BTW A 24 week old embryo is not a human being. You're not a human being until you're in my phone book.

Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.

He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.

His pomposity is overshadowed only by his rank stupidity

Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads.

Doubt is the father of invention.

stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves

The term biodynamics - push it aside, it is verbosity. It doesn't matter a bit. One has to use words to make headings, that's all it is. It's rather like the stupidity in a picture gallery today where you have to write under it what the scene or person is. It is equally as nonsensical as that. Therefore to talk about biodynamic gardening, biodynamic horticulture, biodynamic agriculture and the French intensive system is merely a horrible heading of terminology.

I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?

My films are misinterpreted all the time. I don't mind that. Everybody's films are misinterpreted. But there's no malice or stupidity in the people that misinterpret them. You know what you do, but someone else sees it, and they want to talk about it or write about it, and so they misinterpret them.