Stupidity Quotes
1273 Stupidity quotes by 795 unique authors
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If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
— Francis Parker Yockey
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Against a stupidity that is in fashion, no wisdom compensates.
— Theodor Fontane
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[On President Bush's plan to get to Mars in 10 years] Stupid. Robots would do a better job and be much cheaper because you don't…
— Stephen Hawking
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War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.
— John Dos Passos
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My girlfriend makes me want to be a better person... so I can get a better girlfriend.
— Anthony Jeselnik
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
— Umberto Eco
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The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.
— Gary Larson
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A leapord never changes his stripes.
— Al Gore
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It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
— Thomas Beecham
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To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself to be wise.
— Unknown Author
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Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because…
— John Ruskin
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Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
— Johann Gottfried Seume
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Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.
— Frank Zappa
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Why do most people think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?
— Poul Anderson
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A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.
— Bruce Catton
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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Christmas is at our throats again.
— Noel Coward
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They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it.
— Gracie Allen
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BTW A 24 week old embryo is not a human being. You're not a human being until you're in my phone book.
— Bill Hicks
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Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.
— William Shakespeare
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The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
— William Shakespeare
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Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although…
— William Shakespeare
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The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.
— Anton Chekhov
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He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
— Benjamin Franklin
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My theory is that there is a finite amount of intelligence in a family, and you're supposed to gradually transfer it to your children over…
— Dave Barry
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