Stupidity Quotes

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

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

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

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

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.

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

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

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

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

What Democrats call 'nuanced,' most people refer to as 'stupidity.'

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

Stupidity fuses notoriety and celebrity.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

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

The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.