Human stupidity Quote by Edith Wharton Download Open image ““...the endless labour of rolling human stupidity up the steep hill of understanding.”” — Edith Wharton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human stupidity Learning
“Just when you think humanity has found the limits of stupid, they go and ratchet up the standard by another notch.” — Dennis E. Taylor Copy Share Image
“We are old fools. The more educated and intelligent we become, the less we know and understand.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Sometimes stupidity runs so deep that there is no point in attempting to analyze it.” — Robert L. Bryan Copy Share Image
“It is almost laughable to ponder upon where it all started and nearly grim and shameful when we realise as humans that we are… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.” — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
“What a mess the world is in. It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Put knowledge in the hands of stupid people, and it just made them more stupid.” — Shiloh Walker Copy Share Image
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Life is strange and funny with many winding roads ahead...but the roads of greed and hypocrisy will lead to a person's downfall each and… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“Suddenly the air was full of that deep clangor of bells which periodically covers Rome with a roof of silver.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. And he felt himself… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“High Pasture Come up--come up: in the dim vale below The autumn mist muffles the fading trees, But on this keen hill-pasture, though the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Two ways to be a light for all, is to be a flaming candle or the mirror that reflects it” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“... no treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“But in a few years more perhaps there may be; for, deep within us as the ghost instinct lurks, I seem to see it… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“I've said this before: a lot of people think they're artists because they feel things deeply. You know, we're in a culture now and… — Dan Schneider Copy Share Image
Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“By studying human history, we can realize how much of human stupidity has fallen on fertile ground. Is gravity guilty for such an occurrence… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“[On Dr. Strangelove ]: My idea of doing it as a nightmare comedy came in the early weeks of working on the screenplay. [...]… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“By the time the Somnambulist had set her creaking bones to rest on their assigned landing pad, Holden had lost all patience with human… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“I had written the sentence, 'You mustn't think that the evolution that gave rise to us was the only evolutionary possibility on this planet.… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. Let me then float an unconventional plea, the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image