Stupidity Quotes - Page 9

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.

I'm allergic to stupidity.

Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.

The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!

I stop paying attention because as much as I love beauty, I hate stupidity, and seeing the two combined pisses me off.

The better the actor, the more stupid he is.

Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.

We aim to please... You aim too, please.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

Undoubtedly we will go on to Mars in due course, provided we don't blow ourselves up with our stupidities in the short run. That's a possibility, too.

We're all entitled to a little stupidity now and then.

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.

If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.

what's life without a spice of stupidity

There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout.