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Stupidity Quotes - Page 6

Stupidity is without anxiety.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.177

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.51, Macmillan

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, p.57, Psychology Press

. . . it seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.

Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.575, Routledge

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.215, Random House

I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!

Lorraine Hansberry (2011). “A Raisin in the Sun”, p.120, Vintage