Stupidity

Stupidity is something we all have in common. You may recognize yourself in these proverbs and quotes about stupidity.

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Fools never get grey hair.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Fools speak while the wise listen

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of stupidity.
(unknown author)

Freedumb. The belief that your personal freedom outweighs others' personal safety.
(unknown author)

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

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

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
Yul Brynner

He is a fool who praises the fruit of a tree and forgets its roots.

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
Samuel Johnson

He is too stupid to be trusted alone by the fire.

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.
Groucho Marx

He that is born a fool is never cured.

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.
F.M. Knowles

Honestly, if you were any slower, you'd be going backward.
J.K. Rowling
Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Quoted: Malfoy

I am only responsible for what I say, not for what you understand.
(unknown author)

I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
(unknown author)

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
George Berkeley

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.
P.J. O'Rourke

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
John Peel

I wanted to see the weak protected against the strong, and stupidity is a form of weakness.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Source: Thrones, Dominations

I'll take crazy over stupid any day.
Joss Whedon

I'm not allowed a smartphone of my own because I would lose it.
Bill Bryson
Source: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

If a bee stings you once, it's the bee's fault; if a bee stings you twice, it's your own damn fault.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
Albert Einstein

If a rich man ate a snake, they would say it was because of his wisdom; if a poor man ate it, they would say it was because of his stupidity.

If poverty is the mother of crime, stupidity is its father.
Jean De La Bruyere

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
William Blake

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

If you are intelligent you are clever, so if you are stupid you are telligent?
Minkukel

If you are truly stupid you not only do things stupidly but are in all likelihood too stupid to realize how stupidly you are doing them.
Bill Bryson
Source: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

If you don't need a mask because God will protect you, why do you need a gun?
(unknown author)

If you think the only people you should have in your country are the people you produce yourselves, you are an idiot.
Bill Bryson
Source: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

If you took all the young men in southern England with those caps and that slouch and collected them all together in one room, you still wouldn't have enough IQ points to make a halfwit.
Bill Bryson
Source: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
Epictetus

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
Michel de Montaigne

Irony is wasted on the stupid.
Oscar Wilde

It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.
Sherrill Brown

It doesn't take many brain cells to be stupid.
Minkukel

It had been exciting, the entire journey, but nothing lasts for ever, except possibly general stupidity.
Jonas Jonasson
Source: Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

It is a stupid dog that barks at an elephant.

It is a stupid goose that listens to the fox preach.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.
Jerome Cady

It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

It is foolish to show glowworms by candle light.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
William Hazlitt

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

It is the fool whose own tomatoes are sold to him.

It takes great wisdom to play the fool.


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