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Stupidity Quotes

In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity.

It is true that impatience, the mother of stupidity, praises brevity, as if such persons had not life long enough to serve them to acquire a complete knowledge of one single subject, such as the human body; and then they want to comprehend the mind of God in which the universe is included, weighing it minutely and mincing it into infinite parts, as if they had to dissect it!

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

I've learned people are watching, so don't do nothing stupid.

Somebody does somethin' stupid, that's human. They don't stop when they see it's wrong, that's a fool.

I think I'm smart unless I'm really, really in love and then I am ridiculously stupid.

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.

The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.