Stupidity Quotes
1273 quotes by 795 authors
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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
— Michel de Montaigne
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With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.
— Thomas Carlyle
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There are two fools in every marketplace; one asks too little, one asks too much.
— Alan Sugar
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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
— Bertolt Brecht
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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
— Eric Hoffer
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The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on…
— Elbert Hubbard
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Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.
— Bertrand Russell
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The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.
— Gelett Burgess
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A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
— Aeschylus
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Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.
— Hippolyte Taine
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Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.
— Baltasar Gracian
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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
— Zhuangzi
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All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on…
— George Jean Nathan
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Stupidity is without anxiety.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
— Frank Moore Colby
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