Motivational Quotes

Stupidity

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

Best Quotes about Stupidity

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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich von Schiller

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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.

3.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Harlan Ellison

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

Gauguin, Paul

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

Stephen Vizinczey

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

10.

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

Jerome, Jerome K.

11.

The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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

Brown, Sherrill

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Heinrich Heine

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

Vizinczey, Stephen

16.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Stupidity is the friend of evil.

18.

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

Frank Dane

19.

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

Hoffer, Eric

20.

Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

24.

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

Josh Lieb

25.

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

Gourmont, Remy De

26.

Stupidity is without anxiety.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

The Cardinal is at his wit's end -- it is true that he had not far to go.

Byron, Lord

28.

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.

29.

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

Banderas, Antonio

30.

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

31.

Stupidity is a force unto itself.

Proverb, Latin

32.

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

33.

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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Fools rush in where fools have been before.

35.

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

Rogers, Will

36.

Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

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