Stupidity Quotes
1273 quotes by 795 authors
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It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns among the stupid.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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I want to live as long as possible, just to see how stupid it gets.
— Susan Sontag
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There is no dunce like a mature dunce.
— George Santayana
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
— Moliere
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He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.
— Jane Austen
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An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.
— Lord Chesterfield
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A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he cannot perceive. And he's a fool a fool who tries to make such a blockhead…
— Prince William
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Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity.
— Andre Gide
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I have a sense of humor; but over the years that sense has developed one blind spot. I can no longer laugh at ignorance or…
— Charles Francis Richter
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Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity.
— Bill Cosby
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In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to understand nature and…
— John Desmond Bernal
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Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.
— H. L. Mencken
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Man is the inventor of stupidity.
— Remy de Gourmont
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My disciples are vegetarian not as a cult, not as a creed. They are vegetarians because their meditations make them more human, more of the…
— Rajneesh
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Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more…
— Ayn Rand
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The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
— Robert Motherwell
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