Motivational Quotes

Stupidity

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Best Quotes about Stupidity

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Insanity is just what we call stupidity when it doesn't make sense.

Josh Lieb

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Franklin, Benjamin

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

Heinrich Heine

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.

Stephen Vizinczey

Stupidity is without anxiety.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

Hazlitt, William

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It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?

Booth, William

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Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Scott Adams

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It was absolutely marvelous working for Wolfgang Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no worry that he would think a particular question was stupid, since he thought all questions were stupid.

Weisskopf, Victor

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Man is the inventor of stupidity.

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Gauguin, Paul

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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.

Brown, Sherrill

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Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

Kraus, Karl

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If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

Rogers, Will

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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

Hoffer, Eric

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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

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It is much easier for good to deal with evil than it is for good to deal with stupidity.

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To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't.

Levi, Primo

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The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.

Harlan Ellison

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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich von Schiller

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Stupidity is the friend of evil.

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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein