Stupidity Quotes

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California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange. — Fred Allen
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. — Gracie Allen
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas… — Tom Coburn
Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted be hampered and… — Nikola Tesla
Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid. — John Wayne
There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from… — Walter Savage Landor
Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. — James A. Garfield
Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity. — Remy de Gourmont
There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive,… — Victor Hugo
Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance. — Alistair Cooke
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. — Alexander Berkman
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. — Eric Hoffer
We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man. — George S. Patton
True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity. — Robert Foster Bennett
The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie. — Gore Vidal
Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

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