Against stupidity, the very gods themselves contend in vain.
-Friedrich
von Schiller
Age does not bring wisdom. Often it merely changes simple stupidity into
arrogant conceit.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
-Variously
attributed
Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible
stupidity can usually be traced to an organization.
-Jon Bentley
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-Edwin H. Land
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
-Frank
Leahy
From stupidity there is always something to be learned, but it's always
the same thing: don't be stupid.
-Robert M. Adams
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
-Elbert
Hubbard
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
-Edith
Sitwell
If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test
people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed
and love of power.
-P.J. O'Rourke
Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be.
-Lois
McMaster Bujold
In nature, stupidity gets you killed. In the workplace, it gets you
fired. In politics, it gets you re-elected.
-Bill VanRemmen
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
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.
-Richard Dreyfuss
It seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous
stupidity than out of wickedness.
-Karl Popper
It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful.
-Anton Szandor LaVey
Let us say that I despise stupidity. Especially when it masquerades as
virtue.
-Miguel de Cervantes
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft
music.
-Vladimir Nabokov
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by
stupidity. But remember, any sufficiently advanced stupidity is
indistinguishable from malice.
-Variously attributed
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Don't
assign to stupidity what might be due to ignorance. And try not to
assume your opponent is the ignorant one- until you can show it isn't
you.
-M.N. Plano
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
-Robert A.
Heinlein
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and
conscientious stupidity.
-Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide
stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
-Edward Abbey
Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.
-Hyman Rickover
Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the
stupid.
-Nicolas Chamfort
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and
higher education positively fortifies it.
-Stephen Vizinczey
Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.
-Louise
Bogan
Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by
legislation.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were
not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.
-Albert Camus
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
-Pope
John Paul II
Stupidity is always a capital crime.
-Larry Niven
Stupidity is like nuclear power, it can be used for good or evil. But
you still don't want to get any on you.
-Scott Adams
Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere.
-Variously attributed
Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death,
there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and
without pity.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
-Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Sr.
Stupidity's the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
-William
Gaddis
The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost
any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.
-Will
Rogers
The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity
of your action.
-A. Kindsvater
The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety
labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
-Variously
attributed
The simplest form of stupidity- the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid
incomprehension- can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which
disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently,
indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to
identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare
attack. It is called Popular Opinion.
-Robertson Davies
The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether
economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny of
his fellows and to withdraw his activities from effective control.
-Reinhold
Neibuhr
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
-Harlan
Ellison
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen, and quotes
about hydrogen and stupidity.
-John Alejandro King (The Covert
Comic)
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of
stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
-Gustave Flaubert
The world is just filling up with more and more idiots! And the computer
is giving them access to the world! They're spreading their stupidity!
At least they were contained before- now they're on the loose everywhere!
-Harlan
Ellison
There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's
own industry or by the stupidity of others.
-Jean de la Bruyere
There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled
by greed.
-Edward Abbey
There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by
its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
-Gene
Wolfe
There is no sin except stupidity.
-Oscar Wilde
There's much more stupidity than there is malice in the world.
-William
Gaddis
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for
happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
-Gustave
Flaubert
To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that
you are; the most irreparable of vices is to do evil from stupidity.
-Charles
Baudelaire
With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much.
-Thomas
Carlyle
You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from
stupidity.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated,
drunkenness sobered, but stupidity lasts forever.
-Aristophanes
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