Stupidity Quotes - Page 30

Sign at a Tennessee highway: When this sign is under water, this road is impassable.

Over a third of the Newenhan population was under eighteen,which didn't make his job any easier, the hormonally challenged being terminally and all too often fatally prone to acts of stupidity.

Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.

Office of the Vice President... The Council on Competativeness.

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

My grandfather... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right.

I felt like I was in charge.

What you guys want, I'm for.

A brain you can convince, a simpleton you have to persuade.

I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me that I may have felt intellectual. I entertained views too noble or too bitter to be true. I must have done some soul-stretching of my mental neck.

Men. <...> They're idiots. It's like they all take a vow of stupidity or something.

The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.

They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and of the heartbroken desire to see a place made whole again.

The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which neighborhood, your district, your city, your county, your state, your nation-everybody grabbing each other's assholes in the Honeycomb of survival out of a fear-animalistic stupidity.

If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.

The photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because they were too lazy to finish their studies. Hence this universal infatuation was not only characterized by blindness and stupidity, but also by vindictiveness.

Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said, 'but sometimes there's a fine line between courage and stupidity.

Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.

Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.

The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.

The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.

The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity.

Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.

[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.

It's amazing how much actual chicken sounds lend themselves to stupidity.