Stupidity Quotes - Page 5

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

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

Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.

You can not argue with stupid but you can certainly play with it.

If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey.

Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it more respectable in Emma's eyes--and she listened to her and tried to console her with all her heart and understanding--really for the time convinced that Harriet was the superior creature of the two--and that to resemble her would be more for her own welfare and happiness than all that genius or intelligence could do.It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant; but she left her with every previous resolution confirmed of being humble and discreet, and repressing imagination all the rest of her life.

That such a slave as this should wear a sword,Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwainWhich are too intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passionThat in the natures of their lords rebel,Being oil to the fire, snow to the colder moods,Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaksWith every gale and vary of their mastersKnowing naught, like dogs, but following.

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.

Of all the things in the world, I'm particularly amazed at, is the conviction with which the MIND, endorses an Idea, which is phenomenal, as it differentiates the Genius from Mediocre, or not to forget the human stupidity in particular!

If this is a smart world then I want to be stupid.

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

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

CUSTOMER (to their friend): God, the Famous Five titles realy were crap, weren’t they? Five Go Camping. Five Go Off in a Caravan.... If it was Five Go Down To a Crack House it might be a bit more exciting.

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

Irony is wasted on the stupid

Nothing vexes me so much in stupidity as the fact that it is better pleased with itself than any reason can reasonably be. It is unfortunate that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and trust yourself, and always sends you away discontented and diffident, whereas opinionativeness and heedlessness fill their hosts with rejoicing and assurance.

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

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

Me?...Stupid?” I fluttered my eyes innocently. “When have I ever done anything stupid?”“Don’t get me wrong, you’re the smartest person I know…” She fought back a smile. “But you have done some of the dumbest things I ever thought possible.”“So you have a point…” I shrugged. “Still not stopping me.

A stupid mule is still smarter than a good horse or a bad man.

Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.

I do not want to be labeled as an atheist; I do hate religions’ stupidity and insanity, but there is nothing else I can be called.

The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.

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

What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

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

The only defense against stupid is distance.

If they gave him an enema, he could be buried in a matchbox.

Careful, Mr. Spiro, guns are dangerous. Especially the end with the hole.

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

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.

I had stood and stared at the webbing of steel then wished for a hole to climb through. The wires had just unraveled without setting off the klaxon. I remembered thinking with a horrible kind of panic that I had somehow done withcraft, and was convinced I was the blackest kind of evil. Then I realized how ridiculous I was being, and figured it was a coincidental gift from the universe, or something.

Does it look like I have stupid written across my forehead

Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.

Sometimes, to fix something, you need to completely ruin something else

Cruelty is the surest sign of stupidity.

Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.

Life is too short not to start something stupid.

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

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

Never confuse honor with stupidity!

Love sharpens intelligence, fear dulls it. Who wants you to be intelligent? Not those who are in power. How can they want you to be intelligent?—because if you are intelligent you will start seeing the whole strategy, their games. They want you to be stupid and mediocre. They certainly want you to be efficient as far as work is concerned, but not intelligent; hence humanity lives at the lowest, at the minimum of its potential.

Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.

God didn't make Eve from Adam's rib. He took out half of Adam's brain by accident.

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lighting´s going to strike".

Fast and stupid is still stupid. It just gets you to stupid a lot quicker than humans could on their own. Which, I admit, is an accomplishment," she added, "because we're pretty damn good at stupid.

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.

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

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

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

A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity.

When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.

Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on.

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

He took the Captain as he was, and was fond of him, with his cheery heartlessness, his incapacity to think beyond a couple of thoughts, for which his skull was far too roomy, his insignificant love affairs and childish infatuations, and the pointless and unconnected remarks that came out of his mouth, seemingly at random. He was a mediocre officer, who didn't care about his comrades, his men, his career.

I sheep's idea of bravery : To become a wolf's pet.

There is a fine line between stubbornness and stupidity as well as intensity and insanity.

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

Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.