Books Quote by William C. Brown

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. The…

— Milan Kundera

As far as humanity is concerned the origin of stupidity is itself.

— William C. Brown

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

— John Green

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

— Milan Kundera

“Stupidity is the result of a complete absence of imagination, silliness of its excess”

— Martin Boyd

What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency…

— Walter Bagehot

“Literature is what intelligent people have instead of dope.”

— Patrick Hemingway

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything…The novelist…

— Milan Kundera

It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Stupidity has made enormous progress. It's a sun so shining that we can no longer look at it directly. Thanks to communication media, it's…

— Ennio Flaiano

The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.

— Lucy Grealy

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

— William Gaddis