Stupidity Quotes

"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered."
-Voltaire

"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
-George Bernard Shaw

"If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?"
-Scott Adams

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
-William Shakespeare

"Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match."
-Karl Kraus

"There are more fools in the world than there are people."
-Heinrich Heine

"I've done a fair share of stupid things in my life, a couple of which should have put me in the grave. But here I am, typing away as if I had a brain."
-Craig Wilson

"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."
-Friedrich von Schiller

"Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it."
-Stephen Vizinczey

"As if there were safety in stupidity alone."
-Henry David Thoreau

"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"There is no sin except stupidity."
-Oscar Wilde

"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public."
-Scott Adams

"Stupidity often saves a man from going mad."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"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 religous or political ideas."
-Aldous Huxley

"The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better."
-Randy K. Milholland

"Stupidity is a talent for misconception."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."
-Frank Leahy

"Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it."
-Pope John Paul Ii

"Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal."
-Stanley Baldwin

"As much as this disturbs me, it disturbs me even more that other kids living in this home had access to even more drugs, ... It's just sick that he allowed this to happen. It's sheer stupidity."
-Joseph Conti

"With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain."
-Friedrich von Schiller

"I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity."
-Chris Rock

"True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity."
-Bo Bennett

"If they catch (Bonds) now, then punish him. If they find out about it after the fact, then it's their own stupidity."
-Brian Chapman

"It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity."
-Frank Zappa