Stupidity

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This page is for quotations on the subject of Stupidity.

• A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself; indeed, he progresses in all things by making a fool of himself. ~ George Bernard Shaw

• A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. ~ Douglas Adams

• A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it. ~ Ed Solomon, screenplay, Men in Black

• 'If something is made so simple that fools can use it, only fools will use it.' Anonymous

• A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. ~ Bertrand Russell

• A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. ~ Unknown

• After a foolish action comes remorse. ~ Anonymous; cited as a proverb among negroes in "The Mind of the African Negro as Reflected in His Proverbs" by A. O. Stafford in The Journal of Negro History Vol. 1. No. 1 (January 1916) edited by Carter G. Woodson

• Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain. ~ Friedrich Schiller

• Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. ~ Henry David Thoreau

• "Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons." ~ Will Cuppy

• At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols. ~ Aldous Huxley

• Being stupid is its own reward. ~ Unknown

• Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. ~ Edwin Land

• Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. ~ Elbert Hubbard

• D'oh! ~ Homer Simpson

• Never argue with an idiot. They will only pull you down to their level, then beat you with experience. ~ Brad Slipiec

• Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. ~ Frank Dane

• I will not teach a man who is not anxious to learn, and will not explain to one who is not trying to make things clear to himself. ~ Confucius

• If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? ~ Will Rogers

• Intelligence is the ability to articulate one's stupidity. ~ Unknown

• 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

• It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful. ~ Anton LaVey

• Most fools think they are only ignorant. ~ Benjamin Franklin

• Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. ~ "Hanlon's Razor" by Robert J. Hanlon, variations variously attributed to Goethe, Napoleon Bonaparte, William James, Robert Heinlein.

• Never give advice — a wise man won't need it, a fool won't heed it. ~ Unknown

• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. ~ Albert Einstein

• Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. ~ Euripides

• The American people are very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity. ~ Will Rogers

• The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. ~ Albert Einstein

• The dumbest people I know are those who know it all. ~ Malcolm Forbes

• The law is a rule to the fool, but a guide to the wise. ~ Unknown

• The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen...and stupidity.. ~ Harlan Ellison

• The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. ~ Herbert Spencer

• "There are two kinds of fool. One says, 'This is old, and therefore good.' And one says, 'This is new, and therefore better.'" - Dean Inge

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

• There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

• 'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. ~ Mark Twain

• "Who lives without folly isn't as reasonable as he thinks he is." - François de La Rochefoucauld

• With the whole world full of fools, there is none who thinks himself one, or even suspects it. ~ Unknown

• The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. ~ Voltaire

• Out! Out! You demons of stupidity! ~ Dogbert

• Stupid is as stupid does. ~ Forrest Gump

• Stupid people do stupid things, smart people outsmart eachother, then themselves. ~ System of a Down

• Weapons-Grade Stupidity, Tech-support slang for customer intelligence that is so low it poses a severe hazard to those who come in contact with it.~ Jargon Watch, Wired Magazine Issue 9.04

• Boy, smart people are dumb ~ Dylan Sprouse in The Suite Life of Zack and Cody in response to the retort "So it was you!"

• I'd all but given up my crusade to rid the world of fools…there are, I found, just too many! ~ Foolkiller in Issue 225 of The Amazing Spider-Man

• A fool who knows his foolishness is wise at least to that extent, but a fool who thinks himself wise is a fool indeed. ~ Dhammapada

• Though all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he no more comprehends the Truth than a spoon tastes the flavor of the soup. ~ Dhammapada

• Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. ~ Mark Twain

• Everybody complains that we are not humaine, but since stupidity is a nateral human emotion, maybe being inhumaine is for the better... ZeroCrossbs:Glupost

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