quotations about stupidity
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.
ED SOLOMON
Men in Black
Only half-wits can stumble into such enormities.
CHINUA ACHEBE
Anthills of the Savannah
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
C. S. LEWIS
The Magician's Nephew
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
EDWARD ABBEY
The Monkey Wrench Gang
Heaven is for heroes
And hell is full of fools
Stupidity, no will to live
They're breaking God's own rules
OZZY OSBOURNE
"Revelation (Mother Earth)"
The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
RAY BRADBURY
Dandelion Wine
Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured?
STEFAN ZWEIG
Beware of Pity
Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.
TOBA BETA
Master of Stupidity
Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.
PATRICIA BRIGGS
Dragon Bones
It shows much more stupidity to be grave at a good thing, than to be merry at a bad one.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
With various readings stored his empty skull,
Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.
CHARLES CHURCHILL
The Rosciad
When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays
Human stupidity is a constant throughout history.
ANTONELLA DI BIASE
"What Is Neurocapitalism and Why Are We Living In It?", Motherboard, October 18, 2016
It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Angel's Game
I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Rectorial Address at Edinburgh, April 2, 1886
The deep and vast reservoir of human stupidity is significantly more upsetting than what lurks out in the night sky.
NICK JOHNSTON
"Film Review: 'Alien: Covenant' depicts a franchise in dire need of a reinvention", Vanyaland, May 15, 2017
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
WILLIAM BLAKE
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.
DAN SIMMONS
Carrion Comfort
Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on.
SHERRILYN KENYON
Infinity
Nothing is more difficult than to distinguish in children real stupidity from that apparent and deceitful stupidity, which is the precursor of great men.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
attributed, Day's Collacon