Stupidity Quotes

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

Remy de Gourmont

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

Magdeleine Sable

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Oscar Wilde

With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich von Schiller

Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed

Heraclitus of Ephesus

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

Frank Zappa

No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources of our troubles,we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance,greed and love of power.

P. J. O'Rourke

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

Elbert Hubbard

To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparable of vices is to do evil from stupidity.

Charles Baudelaire

There was something about such reflex stupidity that never failed to irritate him.

Gregory Benford

It is not so much stupidity that closes men to philosophy but love of their own, particularly love of their own lives, but also love of their own children and their own cities. It is the hardest task of all to face the lack of cosmic support for what we care about.

Allan David Bloom

Football [soccer] is popular because stupidity is popular.

Jorge Luis Borges

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Do not sit dumb in company; it will be ascribed either to pride, cunning, or stupidity: give your opinion modestly, but freely; hear that of others with candour; and ever endeavour to find out, and to communicate truth.

James Burgh

Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be.

Lois McMaster Bujold