Stupidity Quotes

1273 Stupidity quotes by 795 unique authors

She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity. — Flannery O'Connor
She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy. — Alex Shakar
A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it. — Gilles Deleuze
They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so… — Franz Kafka
The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against… — Christopher Hitchens
He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence. — Michael Lewis
Most of our suffering comes from sin and stupidity; it is, nevertheless, very real, and growth can occur with real repentance. But the highest source… — Neal A. Maxwell
The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never… — Henry Hazlitt
But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war? — Orson Scott Card
You'd have thought we planned it," says Peeta, giving me just the hint of a smile. "Didn't you?" asks Portia. Her fingers press her eyelids… — Suzanne Collins
I'm allergic to stupidity. — Chris Colfer
The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they say they are,… — Carl Rogers
Never underestimate human stupidity. — Pittacus Lore
Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity. — Karin Slaughter
The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for… — Lois McMaster Bujold
I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking! — John Green
I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and… — Frida Kahlo
There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst. — Thomas Mann
what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected to every possible… — Blaise Cendrars
I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty… — Milan Kundera
They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness.… — Khaled Hosseini
In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. — Hunter S. Thompson
Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
It takes certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise. — Gayle Forman

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