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To be too dissatisfied with ourselves is a weakness. To be too satisfied with ourselves is a stupidity.

Magdeleine Sable

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

Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization.

Jon Bentley

Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing

Abraham Maslow

An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service

E. B. White

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits

Albert Einstein

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

Martin Luther King Jr

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

Chris Lowe

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

P. W. Bridgman

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Elbert Hubbard

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

Konrad Adenauer

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Remy de Gourmont

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped

Elbert Hubbard

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Frank Leahy

Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.

Karl Albrecht

There is no sin except stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Elbert Hubbard

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance

William Gaddis

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance

Alistair Cooke

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Robertson Davies

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Edith Sitwell

Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please

Oliver Goldsmith

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