Stupidity is something we all have in common. You may recognize yourself in these proverbs and quotes about stupidity.
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Stupidity begins with honesty.
Stupidity is a disease without a medicine.
Stupidity is a force unto itself.
Stupidity is a form of wisdom.
MinkukelStupidity is a talent for misconception.
Edgar Allan PoeStupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
Pope John Paul IIStupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
Karl KrausStupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell HolmesStupidity won't kill you, but it can make you sweat.
Stupidology: The science of stupidity and stupidness.
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
Sloan WilsonSuperstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother.
VoltaireTake no notice of the stupid things people say.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
EuripidesThe best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
Josh BillingsThe biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts.
Bertrand RussellThe computer is a moron.
Peter DruckerThe difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
(unknown author)The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe Dunning-Kruger Effect is essentially being too stupid to appreciate how stupid you are.
Bill BrysonSource: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard P. FeynmanThe fool needs company, the wise solitude.
(unknown author)The foolish slogans of a rich man often pass for words of wisdom by the fools around him.
The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.
Terry JonesThe greatest of all sins is stupidity.
Oscar WildeThe greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe idea of marrying a doll or a fool was always abhorrent to me. I know that a pretty doll, a fair fool, might do well enough for the honeymoon; but when passion cooled, how dreadful to find a lump of wax and wood laid in my bossom, a half-idiot clasped in my arms, and to remember that I had made of this my equal - nay, my idol - to know that I must pass the rest of my dreary life with a creature incapable of understanding what I said, of appreciating what I thought, or of sympathising with what I felt!
Charlotte BrontëSource: The Professor
Quoted: William Crimsworth
The joke is the weapon of the witty; being serious is the shield of the stupid.
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
Benjamin FranklinThe more stupid the child the dearer it is.
The most stupid chicken always challenges the wildcat.
The only stupid question is the one that is not asked.
The only stupid question is the question you don't ask.
The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
Oscar WildeThe only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
VoltaireThe person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane AustenSource: Northanger Abbey
The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn't know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.
Chuck PalahniukThe problem with the world is that everyone does not have a brain, but everyone does have a tongue.
Raheel FarooqThe problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
Charles BukowskiThe question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.
John King FairbankThe real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
Marjane SatrapiThe secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.
Karl KrausThe silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a clever woman to manage a fool.
Rudyard KiplingThe stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas SzaszThe thing about religion is that everybody else's always appears stupid.
Dave BarryThe trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand RussellThe two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan EllisonThe ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
Oscar WildeThe ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert SpencerEnglish Philosopher (1820-1903)
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
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