Stupidity Quotes

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

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

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

You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

You'll find that no pride is greater than the pride that comes with being thick. Britain is filled with people who are really proud of their stupidity.

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.

People get a kick out of my stupidity.

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

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

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

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

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

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?

I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

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.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.

Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

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.

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

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

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

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.

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

Stupidity fuses notoriety and celebrity.

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

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

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

It saddens me to see the reality-television shows that are getting so much fanfare that are a celebration of stupidity and the degradation of women. And those women are consistently wearing too short, too tight dresses. I hope the trend of aging gracefully returns.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?

As long as 'Pearl Harbor' stays in the past, it's perfect; when it wretchedly changes gears in the late going, it becomes the wrong kind of same old story: Hollywood stupidity and callowness, writ large across the sky.

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.

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.

Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A lot of people have really beautiful tattoos, and I get real tattoo envy. But then other people basically just treat them like bumper stickers for their bodies.

Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.

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

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

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.

What Democrats call 'nuanced,' most people refer to as 'stupidity.'

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

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