Quotes about Stupidity

“Stupidity is without anxiety.”

“Man is the inventor of stupidity.”

“Stupidity is a force unto itself.”

“The greatest of all sins is stupidity.”

“Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.”

“He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.”

“Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.”

“Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless.”

“It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.”

“If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?”

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

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

“The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.”

“The Cardinal is at his wit's end -- it is true that he had not far to go.”

“To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.”

“We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.”

“Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.”

“I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.”

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”

“The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.”

“It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.”

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

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

“The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.”

“An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.”

“There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.”

“Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.”

“It was absolutely marvelous working for Wolfgang Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no worry that he would think a particular question was stupid, since he thought all questions were stupid.”

“The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -- Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.”

“It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?”