Stupidity Quotes - Page 18

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh,” Flamel said quietly. “And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer. Sophie,” he added, without looking at her.

A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.

Nobody likes to offer stupidity as an excuse.

He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack of wisdom, fantasies. At the same time, that's where my creativity can be found. If I tried to control it and make it more mature, it wouldn't be good at all. It'd be uninteresting, without any vivacity.

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

Insanity is just what we call stupidity when it doesn't make sense.

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.

I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

You can't legislate stupidity.

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.

Fear only the warm embrace of passive stupidity.

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been, and will be better than he.

I believe that the BBC, in spite of the stupidity of its foreign propaganda and the unbearable voices of its announcers, is very truthful. It is generally regarded here as more reliable than the press.

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.

Do you know what chaos stands for? C-H-A-O-S stands for Critical Hate And Overwhelming Stupidity.

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

His mind scolded him for his stupidity and urged him to forget her but his heart had no justifications for its stand. It remained unmoved, its solidarity unaffected, its arrogance still holding.

What Democrats call 'nuanced,' most people refer to as 'stupidity.'