Stupidity Quotes

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

~ Jerome K. Jerome

No matter how smart you might appear to be later with your set of diplomas on their fine white parchment, the mistakes you made before the real lessons sunk in never fade. No matter how high you hang those official documents with their official seals and signatures, how shinning and polished the frame, your reflection in the glass will never let you forget how stupid you felt when you didn't know any better.

~ Tupelo Hassman

All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind.

~ Veronica Roth

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.

~ Stephen Vizinczey

You're going to keep making these mistakes as long as you keep carrying your brain in the same scabbard with your sword, Lelldorin.

~ David Eddings

you're Shane, right?'He inched away from her and managed a quick nod as he twisted the rag he held in his fingers. 'Heidi sad you were willing to teach me how to ride.' Her expression shifted from entertained to confused, as if she was wondering why no one had mentioned he was a can or two shy of a six-pack. 'A horse,' he clarified, then wanted to kick himself. What else but a horse? Did he think she was here to learn to ride his mother's elephant? One corner of Annabelle's perfect, full mouth twitched. 'A horse would be good. You seem to have several.'He wanted to remind himself that he was usually fine around women. Smooth even. He was intelligent, funny and could, on occasion, be charming. Just not now, with his blood pumping and his brain doing nothing more than shouting it's her, it's her over and over again. Chemistry, he thought grimly. It could turn the smartest man into a drooling idiot. Here he was, proving the theory true.

~ Susan Mallery

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

~ Albert Einstein

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

~ Edith Sitwell

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

~ Albert Einstein

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

~ Claude Chabrol

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

~ Konrad Adenauer

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

~ Rémy De Gourmont

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

~ Giacomo Casanova

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

~ Stephen Vizinczey

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

~ Michel De Montaigne

The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.

~ Larry Kramer

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.

~ Scott Adams

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

~ Pope John Paul Ii

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

~ Jean Rostand

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

~ Ayn Rand

What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.

~ Mindy Kaling

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

~ Edward Abbey

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

~ Robertson Davies