Stupidity Quotes

Memory is often the attribute of stupidity; it generally belongs to heavy spirits whom it makes even heavier by the baggage it loads them down with.

Franois Ren, vicomte de Chateaubriand

Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.

Nicolas Chamfort

‎The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

Octave Mirbeau

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Robert J. Hanlon

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

Nicolas Chamfort

The world attributes its misfortunes to the schemes and plottings of the very evil and powerful. I think stupidity is underestimated.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.

Bernard Barton

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

George Grosz

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

P. W. Bridgman

When stupidity is a sufficient explanation, there is no need to have recourse to any other

Mitchell Ulmann

Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.

Henry Louis Mencken

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 hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

General Dwight D. Eisenhower