Stupidity Quotations | Page 2

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.

I admire anyone who can come up with something original. But not originality alone, because there can be originality in stupidity, with no musical description of any emotion or any beauty the man has seen, or any kind of life he has lived.

I think we can rule out 'mixed brain dominance' as a cause of your poor performance at school, Charlie Brown" "Have you ruled out stupidity?" "Peanuts", Charles M

Your stupidity is appalling!" "Most stupidity is!

Stupidity is not another form of knowledge.

It's not getting any better for the American people. It seems to be getting worse. That's predictable; education is a cycle. Stupidity breeds more stupidity.

In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.

Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.

Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.

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

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.

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

The best humor is offered up by the stupidity of your opponents.

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

How do we know for sure that no two snowflakes are the same - we haven't got anybody watching.

I am proof that Einstein's "e equals m c squared" is wrong. My mass has increased, but my energy has dropped.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that we are hurting by our stupidity and ignorance of poetry ...

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

At great expense, we have built a vast system of inter-connecting stupidities.

Why is the competition always so intense to set new records for maximum stupidity?

It's wonderful to find cultures that are historically still intact, as opposed to a lot of Western cultures which seem to me to be slowly dying, stuck in celebrity illness or stupidity.

I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not.

He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. 'Fitness,' then, is only another name for 'survival.' Darwinism: That survivors survive.

If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell.

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.

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.

Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.

I'm only going one way.

A leapord never changes his stripes.

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

BTW A 24 week old embryo is not a human being. You're not a human being until you're in my phone book.

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.

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

Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.

There are only two ways of getting on in the world either by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others

There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others.

Stupidity is not a crime.

Lying was a remarkable act of stupidity on Libby's part. He's old enough to know better. He watched Watergate and Iran-contra. To try to pull the leg of the grand jury was really quite remarkable.

She was so young, inexperienced and unlearned and yet she was able to accomplish these amazing things. The fact that she is a woman in those dark times of stupidity and arrogance brought innocence and feminine power to that period.

If this is anything to do with the robbery, it's absolute stupidity beyond belief. That's the one thing you don't do.

I don't care if I have a whole division full of lesbians, if they can do the job. Look, we kicked out a bunch of gay men who were linguists, Arabic specialists. What kind of stupidity is that?

I found that to emerge from a personal nightmare was to enter an infinitely more pervasive public nightmare the nightmare of American hysteria, ignorance, arrogance, stupidity and belligerence; the most powerful nation the world has ever known effectively waging war against the rest of the world.

It's a shame stupidity isn't painful.

Stupidity-The top of the list for Satanic Sins.

It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.

I think when you're in the public eye you unfortunately have to get that kind of stupidity. But that's the way it is. You just live with it and move on.

I think that you know me well enough, Watson, to understand that I am by no means a nervous man. At the same time, it is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

It is much easier for good to deal with evil than it is for good to deal with stupidity.

Somehow people look at the performance of the average mutual fund manager and say, 'It's underperforming the superstar of the market, which is the S&P index in the past few years, therefore I can do as well,' ... That's a fallacy. You may be able to do very well, but the fact that the average fund manager is doing worse than average does not mean he's stupid, and his stupidity doesn't make you smart.

No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they say they are, not with a lurking suspicion in the therapist's mind that they may, in fact, be otherwise. This attitude is not stupidity on the therapist's part; it is the kind of attitude that is most likely to lead to trust...

Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.

Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.

You are far from being the successor to Sharon. You proved today that you are fearful, confused and manipulative. You exhibited stupidity and opacity.

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

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

If you hang around long enough, they think you're good. It's either my tenacity or my stupidity, I'm not sure which.

It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.

An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle and vanished.

A van backed through my windscreen into my wife's face.

I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.

A pedestrian hit me and went under my car.

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

Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign,

Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it.

My girlfriend makes me want to be a better person... so I can get a better girlfriend.

His pomposity is overshadowed only by his rank stupidity

I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.

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

Tourism is the march of stupidity.

To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.

We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity.

All traditions are stupid unless you came up with it yourself.

Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.

People just relate to me. They know I'm a regular person brought up in a hardworking, poor family, that I've had all the struggles that people have. I'm just a friendly person. And I hopefully have a good sense of humor. People get a kick out of my stupidity.

Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even than the profession of novelist.

Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity.

Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.

Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidity of society and culture.

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

Of all creatures on earth, we humans have the highest level of stupidity.

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.

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

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

Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.

I felt like I was in charge.

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

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

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

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?

Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal

Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or stupidity, I do not know-as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms. Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

When I was reporting crime ... I never had the sense of clockwork conspiracies, or some kind of imposing order of evil. What I sensed was things just sort of falling apart. That's my sense of how crime works, that it's not any kind of calculated evil driven by the devil, but just control disintegrating. Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness. Davenport does represent order in this.