Stupidity Quotes - Page 26

I look at the state of the American politics and I scratch my head in wonder. How can the Republican Party, any party, have fallen into to such a state of self-destructiveness - self-destructive stupidity? How is it possible? I don't know. It's an absolute mystery to me.

I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.

Having a diverse sense of taste - or lack of taste - I loved so many different things. I was drawn to the stupidity and excitement of glam, I had a thorough upbringing in rhythm and blues.

Stupidity is not my strong suit.

Americans have a healthy stupidity. That lack of sophistication is a secret superpower.

Then there's politics. Just imagine politics with its dumbbell element subtracted. There would be no Republican candidates. There would be no Democratic voters. The whole system would collapse.

But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?

And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.

If that isn't typical male stupidity! If something doesn't work, kick it or swear at it!

Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.

A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.

Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.

A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.

Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.

My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarden, I always thought that being able to read provided lightness, help to dispel darkness, ignorance and stupidity.

Great men honour intelligence, little men honour stupidity.

Man is a culture, nothing but a culture! Question your culture! Just like monkeys picking lice from their skin, get rid of the stupidities in your culture!

Let your works not be interrupted by the stupidities happening in your own country! Work and walk on your true path ignoring any kind of distractions! Abstract yourself from all the primitivenesses surrounding you! Concentrate on your work!

Just after they exist, all men start travelling; some towards the land of the truth, some towards the land of the stupidity! Most men are on their way to the second land!

The very valuable time of the humanity often passes with the incredible stupidities and with the local matters not worth a penny!

There is the will of the people, there is the will of the mind! Always be at the side of the second one! The first one contains mostly stupidity; the second one contains always intelligence.