Stupidity Quotes - Page 20

There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.

With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.

...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

... nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very similar to using lots of words, for the more imprecise a word is, the greater the area it covers.

You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.

Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.

Stupidity is a blockage in the ability to receive, integrate and transmit new signals.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity.

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.

If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.

Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.

There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.

Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile.

The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.

Cultural stupidity accounts for virtually every aspect of Sarah Palin, both as a person and a political icon. Which, come to think of it, may be a pretty good reason not to misunderstimate her.

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.

In many places, the zoning prohibits the mixing of retail and residential. This stupidity has been accompanied by stupidities in municipal policy, such as disallowing accessory apartments - under the theory that renters are incapable of behaving decently.

The world is going to change, whether we like it or not. We can participate in that change or we can be the victims of that change. In a way. Either we go in our stupidity ignorance, and arrogance, bring more destruction in a way, or we're forced to change.

Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

Several years ago we had an intern who was none too swift. One day he was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?" "Just use copier machine paper," she told him. With that, the intern took his last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five blank copies.