Stupidity Quotes - Page 3

Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

Humanity goes to stupidy, this part is hard to be changed it's like paradox. You can't fight with paradox....Oh, you are genius, so genius with this stupidity!

I'm fairly certain that YOLO is just Carpe Diem for stupid people.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.

The road to the new society had lengthened and become overgrown sadly since 1904. The working class in many thousands had been shown its errors in thinking, but persisted in them. Very well: the working class must have the rigours of capitalism, and if the rigours were harsh - it serves them right for not accepting socialism.

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.

Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.

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

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

Let us tear down the romantic trappings that have adorned passion. Let us cease believing that the measure of a man’s love lies in how stupid he has become or is willing to be.

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.

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

Am I too late?" Caleb asked as he joined them. "Did he do something stupid?""Yeah. On both counts." Tristan stalked past Nick.

Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

He's no idiot, in fact he's a genius... and that's as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness.

Do not feel sorry for the bad luck of people, because behind everyone’s misery is their own stupidity and laziness.

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

Stupidity, once it overcomes its initial state of inertia, is sustained by its own momentum.

I thought Candy Mountain was a real place

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.

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

Well,” I said, “you obviously have some power. You chased off those hooligans with rotten fruit. Perhaps you have banana-kinesis? Or you can control garbage? I once knew a Roman goddess, Cloacina, who presided over the city’s sewer system. Perhaps you’re related…?”Meg pouted. I got the impression I might have said something wrong, though I couldn’t imagine what.

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.

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

If there’s one thing that’s irrefutably absurd, it’s believing that we can separate intelligence from wisdom and still have it be intelligence.

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

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

If stupidity were a gift, only a few would have it.

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

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

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

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.

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

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.

The problem is, that no matter where you work there's going to be people that are so dumb you wonder how the hell they remember to breathe every morning.

Observing stupidity in others is a sure sign of stupidity in the observer.

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.

Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex.

What I call stupidity is not only lack of knowledge, although much of humanity could be elevated from poverty, dogma, illusions and war through traditional education. A thriving education system is the foundation for progress. But stupidity is not merely ignorance; it can also be a way of acting. If you act contrary to your own goals in life – you’re stupid.

...It was borne in upon her audience that the outside of Jane's charming head was distinctly superior to the inside.

Please tell me you're not that stupid.Rachel to Melkin

Stupidity is not my forté however, there is immense entertainment value in playing the dumb blonde...

So this is what men are like. Well, that's it, then - I am going to be a lesbian.

And after all, if stupidity did not, when seen from within, look so exactly like talent as to be mistaken for it, and if it could not, when seen from the outside, appear as progress, genius, hope, and improvement, doubtless no one would want to be stupid, and there would be no stupidity.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

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.

Smartass Disciple: Does stupidity a sin? Master of Stupidity: No stupidity, no sin.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public

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

Stupidity of proving yourself when not required is itself a proof of stupidity.

I am not perfect, but if I looked perfect to everyone I must have been rocking imperfect perfectly to a few imperfect souls that seek imperfection vs. perfection, in an imperfect world where God asks us to seek perfection for our imperfect souls.

For every criminal mastermind, there were ten cretins: the cruel algebra of intelligence applied across the masses.

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 or by design.

Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.

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.

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

I am not sure how evil religion by nature is, but I have no doubt of its stupidity and insanity in practice.

There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. If, for the sake of argument, 1 million are violent, that's a mere .000625 percent of them. I wonder who among you wants to be judged on such a tiny minority. Further, at 1.6 billion, if all Muslims - or even most Muslims - were violent, the world would already be in flames. Most people simply want to live their lives in peace, with some degree of material comfort. I find it bizarre - and disturbing - that so many Americans imagine that being a Muslim somehow trumps human nature and makes ordinary simple people want to rise up and kill everyone. That takes a special kind of stupid.

If stupidity got us into this, why can't stupidity get us out?