Stupidity Quotes · Page 50

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

— Thomas Mann

I believe that this country's policies should be heavily biased in favor of nondiscrimination.

— William J. Clinton

...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.

— Frantz Fanon

If he was stupid enough to walk away, then be smart enough to let him go.

— Anonymous

Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege.

— Dave Barry

And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.

— Sophocles

Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.

— James A. Owen

“He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command," said Citizen. "Oh my," said Rigg. "They're handing out the death penalty…

— Orson Scott Card

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is…

— Oscar Wilde

If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks…

— Charles Baudelaire

“It occurs to hi that what he has failed to impart through wisdom, he may well have imparted through stupidity.”

— Jonathan Tropper

You'll find that no pride is greater than the pride that comes with being thick. Britain is filled with people who are…

— Andrew O'Hagan

It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity

— Frank Zappa

Bad people can change to good people.I hate the people who still think that bad people always stay bad.Its not true, sometimes…

— Ewshy

Why, Sir, Sherry [Thomas Sheridan] is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken a great deal of pains to become what…

— Anonymous

I look at the state of the American politics and I scratch my head in wonder. How can the Republican Party, any…

— Philip Pullman

The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than…

— Henry Hazlitt

In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to…

— John Desmond Bernal

There's a perennial debate about whether the propagandistic tripe produced by establishment media outlets is shaped more by evil or by stupidity.…

— Glenn Greenwald

There is nothing in the world so dangerous, or so overwhelming as stupidity; perhaps there is no more of it now than…

— Gwethalyn Graham

Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than…

— Pentti Linkola

“We have become a nation of thoughtless rushers, intent on doing before thinking , and hoping what we do magically works out.…

— Len Holman

The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Saying 'Wow, You're cool.' when you see someone doing something stupid.

— Anonymous

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

— Will Rogers

There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.

— Evan Esar

Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.

— Sidney Hook

I think writers are excited by stupidity and bad behavior, generally.

— Martin Amis

If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb.

— Stephen King

For someone who's smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.

— Gordon Korman

That's stupid; people thinking with words but suffer with scenes.

— Erdem

He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.

— Michael Lewis

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

— Vikrmn

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

— Anatole France

They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it.

— Gracie Allen

No matter how smart you are, the matters of the heart will always make you dumb.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers.”

— Anthony Liccione

One can overlook stupidity, until it evolves into malice.

— Lizabeth Scott

No one is smart. We just have different levels of stupidity.

— Nikhil Saluja