Quotes about stupidity

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.

A God Given Gift Most Do Not Use---COMMON SENSE--- Try It The Holy Spirit Only Speaks Through It!

People are intelligent it is their ideas that are stupid.

When stupidity of today joins with the stupidity of yesterday it becomes a myth my myth a stupidity glorifies itself.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.

NOT everybody is stupid the same way. Stupidity varies meaning there are divisions and specialization of stupidity as it is in the production process. Everyone specializes according to his or her capabilities and location.

Wisdom simplifies the things stupidity makes the things complicated!

Illiteracy and stupidity are not quite different statuses they are both the outcome of our lethargy and indolence.

Against stupidity be always prepared.

Stupidity is not a behavior it's a religion. One can die for it!

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.

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.

But stupid things have a gravity and a momentum of their own they crush good thinking and resistance as colonists with guns and cannons overcame spear-throwing natives.

Bravery is not an act of intelligence it is just selfishness and stupidity.

When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against

Ignorance is relatively easy to overcome stupidity is much harder.

Ignorance is relatively easy to cure stupidity is much harder.

In order to put an end to our conflicts we must put an end to the religions people stupidity.

Fear is a communicable disease it comes out in the sweat and passes from host to host. Fear is an incendiary agent it combusts with stupidity.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

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.

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

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.

Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!

Bizim hepimizin içinde zübüklük olmasa, bizler de birer zübük olmasak, aramızdan böyle zübükler büyüyemezdi. Hepimizde birer parça olan zübüklük birleşip işte başımıza böyle zübükler çıkıyor. Oysa zübüklük bizde, bizim içimizde. Onları biz, kendi zübüklüğümüzden yaratıyoruz. Sonra, kendi zübüklüklerimizin bir tek Zübük’de birleştiğini görünce ona kızıyoruz. Bu zübükler heryerde var, biz zübükler nerde varsak, onlar da orada...

People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.

Don’t do anything stupid.""Don’t worry," I whispered over the line, "I’m an expert on stupid.""You’re...""Like, I can spot stupidity, because I know it so well. The way an exterminator knows bugs really well, and can spot where they’ve been? I’m like that. A stupidinator.""Never say that word again," Prof said.

I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And when a girl comes along who has about twice the regular allowance, she too often makes a bee line for me with the love light in her eyes. I don't know how to account for it, but it is so.""It may be Nature's provision for maintaining the balance of the species, sir.

I'm a werewolf trapped in a human body.""Well, yeah, that's kind of the definition.""No, really. I'm trapped.""Oh? When was the last time you shape-shifted?""That's just it - I've never shape-shifted.""So you're not really a werewolf.""Not yet. But I was meant to be one, I just know it. How do I get a werewolf to attack me?"Stand in the middle of a forest under a full moon with a raw steak tied to your face, holding a sign that says, 'Eat me; I'm stupid'?

I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.

I was well-read but perhaps that only made me stupid.

Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness.

Shallow intellect is worse than ignorance. Ignorance can be treated with knowledge, but shallow intellect, that is illusion of knowledge, is untreatable and quite dangerous to the progress and wellbeing of humanity.

To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

The critical nature of 'choices' -- [the] timing will prove to be an asset or liability; it will reward wisdom or expose stupidity. Either way, we learn from the path of suffering or satisfaction… by choice and by design.

Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.

Cieszy mię ten rym: „Polak mądr po szkodzie”;Lecz jeśli prawda i z tego nas zbodzie,Nową przypowieść Polak sobie kupi,Że i przed szkodą, i po szkodzie głupi.

There's a thin line between genius and bottom-barrel stupidness. I hover delicately on a tightrope between the two, wondering where I'll land if I'll ever fall.

Brave? Or stupid?"Roger shrugged. "I've never been quite sure where brave stopped and stupid began, myself.

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.

Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.

Dzieje kultury wykazują, ze głupota jest siostrą bliźniaczą rozumu, ona rośnie najbujniej nie na glebie dziewiczej ignorancji , lecz na gruncie uprawnym siódmym potem doktorów i profesorów. Wielkie absurdy nie są wymyślane przez tych, których rozum krząta się wokół spraw codziennych. Nic dziwnego zatem, że właśnie najintensywniejsi myśliciele bywali producentami największego głupstwa. / The history of culture shows that foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom. It does not flourish on the fields o

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy."Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us ... all those things."But---buried alive! That's like in that horror movie. Y'know -- the one with all the horror."I think I saw that one. With all the words going up on the screen at the end?"Yeah, that was it. Tell you the truth, those words kinda ruined it for me.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.

Remember, changing someone’s hang-ups is an easier task if stays in the realm of sex because the carrot at the end of this trip is—SEX! It’s not so easy to change other aspects of a man’s personality because the rewards aren’t as apparent and you can’t exactly screw the stupid out of someone.

Children are being killed, because some "adults" think life is a game.Something is amiss.When children shoot up other children in school, it's a national tragedy, and a week of mourning.When grown men are killing unarmed young, yes unarmed young, it bespeaks the leagues of fear residing in these men's hearts; that they've created a world in which they themselves have become useless.Then it makes front page, and it becomes business as usual.Something is amiss here.If adults don't truly grow up, t

We have the right and the responsibility to be intolerant of those things which should not be tolerated.

Let the fools hold on to their treasured stupidityLet yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity

Well, speaking as a feminist, I'm glad that women can lead--uh, groups of unspeakable magical evil.""Yes," Alan said gravely. "It'd be shoking if the evil magicians were sexist. For one thing, that would mean they were stupid, and having stupid enemies would be a terrible blow to my manly pride.

the Great Vaccination — the vaccination against the stupidity of the intelligentsia.

One moment people should learn that they must find their answers not to ask but to find. In real life you can't always ask, if you are ask you show how much stupid are you really!

...few truly understood how disheartening it was to be cut off from worlds so strange and distant they remained to us fantasies rather than distant realities, too surreal and foreign to be touched. Their minds were fixated on what they knew to be real, unable to create the atmospheres of the nebulous realms that lay just beyond our reach, just beyond the dimming horizon, our celestial limits.

Everything happens for a reason but sometimes the reason is because you are stupid

As an evil cultist, I make an excellent evil cultist. Only I'm stupid, and not evil. And I worship nothing, really.

The Naga laughed softly, 'There's a thin line that separates courage from stupidity.''And that line is only visible in retrospect, my friend. If I'm successful, people will call me brave. If I fail, I will be called foolish. Let ,me do what I think is right. I'll leave the verdict to the future.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

It takes a certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know how things will end and still hope otherwise.

Of course, even before Flaubert, people knew stupidity existed, but they understood it somewhat differently: it was considered a simple absence of knowledge, a defect correctable by education. In Flaubert's novels, stupidity is an inseparable dimension of human existence. It accompanies poor Emma throughout her days, to her bed of love and to her deathbed, over which two deadly agélastes, Homais and Bournisien, go on endlessly trading their inanities like a kind of funeral oration. But the most

Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.

The sad thing is that so many people, in the belief that the universe is organized to suit and influence them, are willing to sacrifice even the slight cranial capacity with which evolution has equipped us.

The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that time.

The Internet is the aggregate of human derpitude.Listening to the Internet without being confident you've found a well-curated garden relative to the area of concern is a bad idea.

Availability of knowledge is only next to prevalence of stupidity in its overwhelming abundance.

If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!

We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.

How can you fight stupidity effectively? The answer is simple: it’s not easy.

أحمق من يستسلم للموت طالما الحياة ممكنة

I tell you, stupidity, self-protective stupidity, is the fundamental sin. No man alive has a right to contentment. No man alive has a right to mental rest. No man has any right to be as stupid as educated, Liberal men have been about that foolish affair at Geneva. Men who have any leisure, any gifts, any resources, have no right to stifle their consciences with that degree of imposture.

If there were a master of stupidity in this world, I would really love to listen to his success story.

Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects. Be patient. Just as there are ugly ducklings that turn into beautiful swans, there are rebellious kids and slow learners that turn into serious innovators and hardcore intellectuals.

The only pathway to your destruction is your ignorance.

Will this be in the examination, Mr Hecker?" was the limit of my students' interest in any given subject. If it was going to be in the test they took notes, if it was not going to be in the test they did not take notes. Their silent, depthless stares were unnerving. I told myself that they were not stupid - for how could the final attainment of thousands of years of human progress be stupid?

Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any subtlety of thought or expression. A man for his time, indeed.

I know who I am. Bloody hell, I'm getting enough bills for Karl Pilkington so I hope I am him, 'cos if I'm not, I have no idea who I'm paying for.

Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was.Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

What the hell am I doing...? Escape holding myself as a hostage...? I won't be able to make it like that...

Sometimes, I think how stupid I was yesterday. Then I look at people who still are, even today!

Give me a book and I may change the world, give me a weapon and there will be no world to change.

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are.

Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of virtue has not been outlived even today. A kind of sturdy peasant simplicity, which, however, is possible in all classes and can be encountered only with respect and a smile, believes even today that everything is in good hands, namely in the "hands of God"; and when it maintains this proportion with the same modest certainty as it would that two and

Smart people have the brains, but stupid people have the balls

As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done; I have to look ahead.

There's nothing more satisfying than being stupid with a friend.

This is stupid.""Look. You think how stupid people are most of the time. Old men drink. Women at a village fair. Boys throwing stones at birds. Life. The foolishness and the vanity, the selfishness and the waste. The pettiness, the silliness. You think in war it must be different. Must be better. With death around the corner, men united against hardship, the cunning of the enemy, people must think harder, faster, be...better. Be heroic.Only it's just the same. In fact do you know, because of all

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars--all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose--there is no such war in the history of the race.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.