Motivational Quotes

Stupidity

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

- Albert Einstein

Best Quotes about Stupidity

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

Franklin, Benjamin

To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Heinrich Heine

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

Gourmont, Remy De

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Josh Lieb

Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless.

Proverb, Jewish

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

Frank Dane

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

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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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I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.

Banderas, Antonio

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Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Vizinczey, Stephen

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Albert Einstein

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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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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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The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich von Schiller

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

Brown, Sherrill

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

Harlan Ellison

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

Stephen Vizinczey

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Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

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

Rogers, Will

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The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.

Fairbank, John King

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Stupidity is without anxiety.