Stupidity Quotes - Page 22

For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

Bravery and Stupidity can often be mistaken for the other.

For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?

Stupidity is always a capital crime.

Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.

You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.

You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity.

The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.

All the more vile is the stupidity of those persons who open heaven to all the impious and unbelieving without the grace of Him whom Scripture commonly teaches to be the only door whereby we enter into salvation.

It's not how good you can play when you play good. It's how good you play when you play bad and we can play as bad as anyone in the country.

Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.

Like the characters in Chekhov, they have no reserves -– you learn the most intimate secrets. You get an impression of a world peopled by eccentrics, of odd professions, almost incredible stupidities, and, to balance them, amazing endurances.

I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in.

Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

..people (in Minnesota) avoid stupidity when possible, not wanting to be a $10 haircut on a 50 cent head.

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.

A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

I really believe in completely being naive and having high hopes when meeting someone new. I can kind of re-do my stupidity or my naivete.

In my 20s I was so ignorant about drugs, and so naive. I mean, my band was smoking marijuana for years; I didn't even know what a joint was. And I'd never seen a line of cocaine in my life. And I don't know whether it was bravado or - OK, I'll join in. But my stupidity, I had a line of coke, and that started the whole process.

There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

General George Patton, General Douglas MacArthur are spinning in their grave at the stupidity of what we're doing in the Middle East.

Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced.

When I said 'we', officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat.

Chair lifts need to be in some places so that we can get to wonderful views without having to hike to them.