Stupidity Quotes

Never be content with your work, your relationships, your life. That's the stupid advice philosophers give today.

~ Marty Rubin

Oliver has stated many times his dislike of hearing advice from his younger sister, so it is his own fault if he has not got sense enough to see which way the wind is blowing.

~ Patricia C. Wrede

We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

~ Orhan Pamuk

Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

We have written too many books about love and so few about hunger and poverty, that is why we need to wake up and leave stupidity behind.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.

~ Jim Butcher

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

~ Margaret Atwood

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

~ Robert J. Hanlon

It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.

~ L.m. Montgomery

To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparable of vices is to do evil from stupidity.

~ Charles Baudelaire

It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.

~ Robert Jordan

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

~ Euripides

The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person’s argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.

~ Auliq Ice

If you can’t define something you have no formal rational way of knowing that it exists. Neither can you really tell anyone else what it is. There is, in fact, no formal difference between inability to define and stupidity.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

Everyone loses their class when they travel through hell, but only a few will regain it if they remain humble and accept the part they played in their own misery.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

~ Emma Goldman

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

~ Patricia Briggs

Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Man has been bestowed with all the senses, Alas! What a drama, we are yet to know the art of using it!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

As a child i was nothing short of a genius, as a man i got used to stupidity.

~ Paul Bamikole

Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that they are taught. They choose their lords and masters without judging them, with a fatal taste for slavery.

~ Gabriel Chevallier

It’s thinking that I had the solution that probably created the problem in the first place.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Ignorance is not bliss. Rather, ignorance is blistering.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Our mind is like a MIRROR it reflects to the outside World what we think.

~ Auliq Ice

I suggest to wash tongues and heads with soap for some people. But I'm not sure that it would help, so you should just try to THINK.

~ Ls.

Hate is no respecter of race - as apparently neither is stupidity.

~ Christina Engela

What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together

~ Julian Barnes

Never underestimate human stupidity.

~ Pittacus Lore

You are an unusual, brilliant child who has not seen enough of life to grasp the full measure of human stupidity.

~ Ayn Rand

The reading of good books could soothe human stupidity, the problem is that human stupidity does not like to read.

~ Carl William Brown

Halved. That was every time. My laughter was for idiots, for their unjustifiable idiocy and for myself for an unrelenting conviction to them, for that unforgivable instance I leveled myself to them. At that awkward realization knowing I precisely was an idiot too, that was the time when I really began to laugh.

~ Jay Mark D. Saga-Ad

I agree that sometimes it is difficult to choose between right and wrong, but not between right and stupid.

~ Amit Kalantri

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

~ Mark Haddon

The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

You're just another american who is willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick being shoved up your asshole every day... The owners of this country know the truth... it's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it!

~ George Carlin

How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they can be extinguished by ignorance, stupidity and arrogance?

~ Sorin Cerin

Ignorance is relatively easy to overcome, stupidity is much harder.

~ Marty Rubin

We somehow have led ourselves to believe that our questions are big enough to encircle life, and that life is small enough to be contained by the answers. The real question might be, are we ignorant or just plain stupid?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

How safe and secure is the internet?Well.....Would you leave all your worldly belongings on the road and expect them to be there when you came back seven years later?

~ Anthony T. Hincks