Stupidity Quotes

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

~ Jane Austen

The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

~ Blaise Pascal

One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn’t understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid. He was renowned for being amazingly clever and quite clearly was so—but not all the time, which obviously worried him, hence, the act. He preferred people to be puzzled rather than contemptuous.

~ Douglas Adams

Not stupid. Overly trusting, maybe, but that reflects on his lack of trustworthiness, not on your intelligence.

~ Tammara Webber

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

~ George Bernard Shaw

I am not the sharpest knife in the knife-thing.

~ Jimmy Dore

I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as your most intelligent self. It is when you realize who you are and the extents of the good and the evils which you are capable of.

~ Criss Jami

It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity.

~ Rémy De Gourmont

Fine words have the power to make even the stupidest person sound intelligent.

~ Marty Rubin

Took me a few years to understand what intelligence is; Took me an entire lifetime to understand ignorance. I still haven't found an explanation for ignorance, because the ignorant are too ignorant to justify their ignorance.

~ Robin Sacredfire

Most people I meet are stupid. Now, nobody likes to be labeled as stupid because they don’t want to know the truth about themselves, that they’re more useful dead than alive. The vast majority of those that meet me for the first time don’t believe that I’ve worked as a College Professor, or that I make a living as a writer. In fact, many have stopped talking to me because they believe I make a living doing something illegal, something criminal. It’s easier for them to believe that I’m just a criminal, than to accept that I’m one of the most famous bestselling writers in the entire planet. The ones that reach the next level, will ask me if I belong to any secret organization, if I speak to demons or if I channel the dead, or even if I steal information from the internet and other authors. Now, what they can’t see, is that the more they talk such things, the more they show me their real nature. They are very, really very, stupid. They can’t see an elephant in front of their nose; they can’t see an intelligent human being in front of their face; they are indeed very stupid and that’s a fact, not an assumption.

~ Robin Sacredfire

Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The great reward given to intelligent people is that they can invent all the rules and equate any dissent with stupidity.

~ Catherine Lowell

Love sharpens intelligence, fear dulls it. Who wants you to be intelligent? Not those who are in power. How can they want you to be intelligent?—because if you are intelligent you will start seeing the whole strategy, their games. They want you to be stupid and mediocre. They certainly want you to be efficient as far as work is concerned, but not intelligent; hence humanity lives at the lowest, at the minimum of its potential.

~ Osho

To be naive is to be unaware of how stupid and cruel other people are; but, by some definitions, ignorance is nearly the opposite of naivety in being a kind of cynicism, in being unaware of their intelligence and humanity. It seems to be a normal although unfortunate case that the great many of us consciously abhor ignorance in others yet subconsciously practice it ourselves: as naivety is apparent and well-known to inflict its damage upon oneself; whereas the alternative and the easier, ignorance, its damage upon others.

~ Criss Jami

IQ's are a combination of eyes, and queues. Would you wait in line to see my goat show? Of course you wouldn't, because the line is invisible.

~ Will Advise

Being smart means you learned it well, being stupid means you haven't learned it yet, but true genius means you know it when no one taught it to you.

~ Sneha Abraham

On Intelligence:Intelligence will not make you rich unless your intelligence is about getting rich. Corollary: Intelligence will lead one to to appreciate things that cost money over things that make money. Corollary: Being a genius is antithetical to being successful unless you're a genius at being successful. Corollary: Being intelligent does not make you rich but it can keep you from being poor. Corollary: Intelligence leads to interests, mostly not gainful. Corollary: Intelligence is like molasses, with effort, it goes where you put it.Rubbers are best for those who refuse to use them. Corollary: Intelligence adds but stupidity multiplies. Corollary: Reverse evolution is the new norm.Only luck can save one from one's own stupidity.Only idiots regard a second chance the same as the first.The higher the IQ, the greater the chance of self-deception.Still waters are often shallow puddles.

~ Kalifer Deil

The internet is where some people go to show their true intelligence; others, their hidden stupidity.

~ Criss Jami

People believe unbelievable things because it's self-flattering to think that you are intellectually daring enough to accept what others find preposterous.

~ Christopher Buckley

[P]art of having a complicated mind was understanding its limits, understanding that it couldn't think of everything. Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity.

~ Jonathan Franzen

THE GAP: Closed-Mindedness can create it, Narrow-Mindedness can widen it, Open-Mindedness can close it, Like-Mindedness… Will Bridge It!

~ Auliq Ice

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

~ Criss Jami

Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head, but once there, there was no shifting it.

~ Richard Killeen

Intelligence and stupidity have equal chance of taking a man to divinity! The blind nature has no such distinctions.

~ Thiruman Archunan

When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Are you aware that humanity is just a blip? Not even a blip. Just a fraction of a fraction of what the universe has been and will become? Talk about perspective. I figure I can't feel so entirely stupid about saying what I said because, first of all, it's true. And second of all, there will be no remnant of me or my stupidity. No fossil or geographical shift that can document, really, even the most important historical human beings, let alone my paltry admissions.

~ Meg Mullins

To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The biggest threat against the survival of humanity is not brutality and unkindness, it is stupidity and selfishness.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

We obey people we don't trust, to buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't like, using money we don't have, for gratifications that don't last, killing animals we don't hate, for pleasures that don't satisfy, dreaming of a life we don't deserve, and praying for an afterlife that doesn't exist, we are a stupid species

~ Philip Wollen

Stupidy is easy, everyone can learn it... You just say to stupid stuff and you are the big Job,... but try to be a wise that's what's hard and most people just try to destroy the wise people why??Because they are too stupid to realease it!

~ Deyth Banger

I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does...

~ Tom Petty

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.

~ Adam Smith

No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles.

~ Criss Jami

Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.

~ Shannon L. Alder

What's simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it gets complicated is that everything seemingly good but ultimately bad comes from man, and everything seemingly bad but ultimately good comes from God.

~ Criss Jami

Why is it a man can never seem to buckle down and train himself to indolence and stupidity when he can see what sanctuary they offer from toil and pain?

~ Alan Lemay

Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that selective evilness is okay is mental illness.

~ Shannon L. Alder