Stupidity Quotes

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

~ Marty Rubin

To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

NOTE: If Donald Trump continues to be stupid enough to respond to everyone who states the obvious fact that he is ignorant, he will starve to death because he won't have time to eat.

~ Gizmo

Don't draw the line before stupidity. It'll take it as a start.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I ‘see’ is but a single thread and solitary shard of what ‘is’, for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

the general trouble with ignorance is always that ignorant people have no idea that that’s what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you’re a genius. If you’re stupid you can always blame miscalculation on bad luck.

~ Louis De Bernières

When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will ‘give way’ and it is I who will ‘fall.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The only response to stupidity and ignorance was silence

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

It's better to shut up and give the impression that you're stupid than to say something and erase all doubt.

~ Auliq Ice

Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.

~ Auliq Ice

Who can have compassion on the ignorant is a victim of regrets, a supporter of ignorance and a builder of stupidity.

~ Auliq Ice

The most ignorant of all people is a person who is self assured in his or her premature decisions.

~ Auliq Ice

People with low self-confidence and self-esteem often feel nervous about antagonizing others and tend to rate others’ needs more highly than their own.

~ Auliq Ice

Ignorance is the toughest enemy of humans. It is most disastrous.

~ Yahia Kareem

Dramatic uprising of stupidity can start from nowhere and only be seen when it reaches it's climax.

~ Auliq Ice

When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

~ Ronald Reagan

You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Don't ever mistake silence for ignorance, when it is obviously stupidity

~ Josh Stern

I hate stupidity, but what I hate even more is when people actually brag about it.

~ Bill Maher

First, however, I must deal with the matter of Jesus, the so-called savior, who not long ago taught new doctrines and was thought to be a son of God. This savior, I shall attempt to show, deceived many and caused them to accept a form of belief harmful to the well-being of mankind. Taking its root in the lower classes, the religion continues to spread among the vulgar: nay, one can even say it spreads because of its vulgarity and the illiteracy of its adherents. And while there are a few moderate, reasonable, and intelligent people who interpret its beliefs allegorically, yet it thrives in its purer form among the ignorant.

~ Celsus

stupidity: a process, not a state. A human being takes in far more information than he or she can put out. “Stupidity” is a process or strategy by which a human, in response to social denigration of the information she or he puts out, commits him or herself to taking in no more information than she or he can put out. (Not to be confused with ignorance, or lack of data.) Since such a situation is impossible to achieve because of the nature of mind/perception itself in its relation to the functioning body, a continuing downward spiral of functionality and/or informative dissemination results,’ and he understood why! ‘The process, however, can be reversed,’ the voice continued, ‘at any time.

~ Samuel R. Delany

The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

And the German society of eighty million people had been shielded against reality and factuality by exactly the same means, the same self-deception, lies, and stupidity that had now become engrained in Eichmann's mentality. These lies changed from year to year, and they frequently contradicted each other; moreover, they were not necessarily the same for the various branches of the Party hierarchy or the people at large. But the practice of self-deception had become so common, almost a moral prerequisite for survival, that even now, eighteen years after the collapse of the Nazi regime, when most of the specific content of its lies has been forgotten, it is sometimes difficult not to believe that mendacity has become an integral part of the German national character.

~ Hannah Arendt

People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity.

~ Shannon L. Alder

In this messianic vision, machine intelligence will come to redeem the universe of its incalculable stupidity. He takes a goal-oriented approach to cosmology, imposing upon the universe itself a kind of corporate project-management structure, composed of a series of key deliverables across deep time.

~ Mark O'connell

I personally think humans have got about as far as we can go. We're wrecking the planet. We're never short of good reasons to massacre each other. Wrong god. Wrong race. Wrong color. Wrong sex. I'm actually quite surprised a thoroughly pissed-off History hasn't waved a flaming sword and we're all back in caves in the snow, chewing on half-cooked mammoth. And even that's more than we deserve.No wonder we still can't get to Mars. I suspect the Universe is making damned sure we don't get the chance to contaminate other planets with our stupidity. It's keeping us on this one where the only thing we can damage is each other.

~ Jodi Taylor

Of course, I’m aware of the animosities destroying brain cells on both sides, and I know all about the obstinacy of the warring parties, their refusal to reach an agreement, their devotion to their own murderous hatred….

~ Yasmina Khadra

If you are stupid enough to cheat, then definitely dumb enough to get caught.

~ Aman Jassal

I weep for the stupidity of my sins.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

~ Laurence J. Peter

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity, especially when it comes to bureaucrats in a government who has no clueabout money matters

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

If you have the power to hit people over the head whenever you want, you don’t have to trouble yourself too much figuring out what they think is going on, and therefore, generally speaking, you don’t. Hence the sure-fire way to simplify social arrangements, to ignore the incredibly complex play of perspectives, passions, insights, desires, and mutual understandings that human life is really made of, is to make a rule and threaten to attack anyone who breaks it. This is why violence has always been the favored recourse of the stupid: it is the one form of stupidity to which it is almost impossible to come up with an intelligent response. It is also of course the basis of the state.

~ David Graeber

More times than I can remember I look around and I ask why the hole I’m in looks so strangely familiar. Probably because it looks a whole lot like all the other ones I dug before I got around to digging this one.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Although it pains me to admit it, I am quite familiar with the holes in life. And this familiarity is due to the fact that I spend far more time in these holes than I spend on the paths that brought me to them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.

~ Franz Kafka

I am not a snob, because I know opulence doesn't stamp out ignorance and unhappiness.

~ Sarina Bowen

If you write anything with using same color of ink on same colors page.Then don't blame eyes for not able to read.

~ Yaganesh Derasari

When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encountering a thousand toils and dangers in the process, has, in the end, no further object than to raise themselves in the estimation of others; when we see that not only offices, titles, decorations, but also wealth, nay, even knowledge[1] and art, are striven for only to obtain, as the ultimate goal of all effort, greater respect from one's fellowmen,—is not this a lamentable proof of the extent to which human folly can go?

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

It hurts so badly when you grow up and understand that everything you believed in and devoted yourself were just fallacy and stupidity.

~ M.f. Moonzajer