Stupidity Quotes
1273 Stupidity quotes by 795 unique authors
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Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income…
— Walt Whitman
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stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves
— Albert Camus
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Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is…
— Alain de Botton
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Hey, does my stupidity give you the right to bruise a tender heart?" "Yeah, yeah. I'm bruising a heart made of Play-Doh.
— Elizabeth Chandler
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There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.
— Hermann Hesse
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Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.
— Jim Butcher
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I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I the stupidity of…
— Heidi Julavits
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Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.
— James A. Owen
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...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.
— Marcel Proust
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Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot
— Iain Banks
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We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves
— George Eliot
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I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot touch the body…
— Katherine Mansfield
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And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside…
— Peter Cameron
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As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken…
— Brennan Manning
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There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of…
— Flannery O'Connor
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Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I wronged him, Katra. Greatly. I had the entire world in my hand at one time and I didn’t know it. I let stupidity blind…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.
— Stephen Fry
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I can’t believe you cheated! (Phobos) I can’t believe you didn’t know it. Man, what kind of god are you? I never knew stupidity had…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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But one thing I realized with my brother is that you can’t toss your pearls before the swine. I think that’s why my mother insisted…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I’m not…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.
— Max Brooks
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Why would you help us? (Delphine) I hear stupidity is a fatal disease. Doing my own experimentation to see if that’s true or not. If…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I want your opinion on the best way to proceed. (Eli) I’d start by killing your son and his crew of idiots before their stupidity…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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