Stupidity Quotes - Page 21

Of all creatures on earth, we humans have the highest level of stupidity.

The brilliant Schiller was wrong in his Joan of Arc when he said against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. It is actually by means of the gods that we make our stupidity and gullibility into something ineffable.

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating will admit that we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.

Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.

Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even than the profession of novelist.

Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.

There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe

Looking at where the planet is now, we could screw things up massively or we could wise-up on a species level and actually make things better. If I had to put my money where my mouth is, I think we'll wise up globally but there will still be outbreaks of local stupidity.

It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.

Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.

The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it's not going to go up, don't buy it!

The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)

Understanding what is going on in the world today inspires me in a negative sense because there's so much about it that I don't like - political stupidity, environmental degradation, etc. And that makes me want to change it, to make a difference in the world.

And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.

On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why doesn't the plane just become a boat?

There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [....] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance and only one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

Life is a flux, nothing abides. Still we are such fools, we go on clinging. If change is the nature of life, then clinging is stupidity, because your clinging is not going to change the law of life. Your clinging is only going to make you miserable. Things are bound to change; whether you cling or not does not matter. If you cling you become miserable: you cling and they change, you feel frustrated. If you don`t cling they still change, but then there is no frustration because you were perfectly aware that they are bound to change. This is how things are, this is the suchness of life.

All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.

The only sin is stupidity.

I think writers are excited by stupidity and bad behavior, generally.