Stupidity Quotes

If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to follow that men of weak imaginations are the reverse; in which case we should have some compensation for stupidity. But it unfortunately happens that no dogmatist is more obstinate or less open to conviction than a fool.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

Erwin Rommel

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

Charles Caleb Colton

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

P. J. O’Rourke

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

John Steinbeck

Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere!

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Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.

Robert Foster Bennett

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

Albert Einstein

Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.

Samuel Johnson

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood / we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

Jean Rostand

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

Chris Lowe

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

Alistair Cooke