Stupidity Quotes
1273 Stupidity quotes by 795 unique authors
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It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even…
— Walter J. Phillips
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As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.
— Jack Kelly
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If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.
— Will Rogers
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One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.
— Claudine Guerin de Tencin
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The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way…
— Charles Fort
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Yesterday was Chinese New Year. It's the Year of the Rabbit. And here's how dumb I am. I'm still writing the Year of the Pig…
— David Letterman
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The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it's not going…
— Will Rogers
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I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in.
— Gerald R. Ford
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I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Racism, prejudice and discrimination are an inexplicable collective stupidity
— Anderson Silva
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As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.
— Madonna Ciccone
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Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one…
— Thomas A. Edison
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I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.
— David Foster Wallace
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Simplicity is not the same as stupidity
— Steve Jordan
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Stupidity is not my strong suit.
— Paul Valery
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It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition ... This last act of our lives seldom belies…
— William Hazlitt
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It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have…
— Karl Marx
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Having a diverse sense of taste - or lack of taste - I loved so many different things. I was drawn to the stupidity and…
— Paul Westerberg
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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
— John Fowles
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
— William Gaddis
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We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
— Paul Gauguin
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
— Charles de Gaulle
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I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.
— Uri Geller
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