Character Quote by John K. Fairbank

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

— Paul Gauguin

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

— Gustave Flaubert

To think that we can understand everything is such stupidity because our senses are so limited. We are so limited that to feel that…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement

— Robert Jordan

If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its symptoms are…

— Richard Armour

I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!

— John Green

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

— Carl Jung

Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.

— Gustave Flaubert

Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.

— Bill Mollison

Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it.…

— Jostein Gaarder

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

— Claude Chabrol