Stupidity Quotes - page 11

I am not sanguine as you know about the success of any effort to recall to the attention of the public the details of our long agitation – I doubt the possibility of any body making the history an interesting one. In fact, it is not a pleasant chapter to go over again in all its minutiae; for it was but a blundering unsystematic series of campaigns, in which we were indebted for our success to the stupidity of our foes, & still more to the badness of their cause. (Richard Cobden)
Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain. View quote
George Orwell
[E]ven stupidity is better than totalitarianism. View quote
George Orwell
He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity. View quote
Norman Tebbit
Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I have always been against the war; I placed my family's existence in danger because I was speaking out against primitivism and nationalism and stupidity. I didn't do that so I could perform in Croatia again one day, but so I could talk with my children as a man, when the time comes. View quote
Đorđe Balašević
Most police work boils down to minimizing the impact on society of stupidity; of the remainder, the overwhelming majority is about malice and deliberate evil, but it's still almost all stupid. View quote
Charles Stross
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. View quote
Albert Camus
It is because you yourself fear the propaganda created, after all, only by the stupidity of your own bigots. View quote
Isaac Asimov
The military mind remains unparalleled as a vehicle of creative stupidity. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Man is the inventor of stupidity. (Remy de Gourmont)
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity. View quote
Remy de Gourmont
You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things. View quote
Nevil Shute
He was a very dispirited Poet. He had never expected the world to act in a courteous, seemly, or even sensible manner, and the world had seldom done so; often he had taken heart in the consistency of its rudeness and stupidity. But never before had the world shot the Poet in the abdomen with a musket. This he found not heartening at all. View quote
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
There was something about such reflex stupidity that never failed to irritate him. View quote
Gregory Benford
There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst. View quote
Thomas Mann
We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves. View quote
Paul Gauguin
"But of course, you don't believe in the existence of sin, do you?” "I believe in the existence of reckless stupidity,” Rashmika replied. View quote
Alastair Reynolds
You can hardly blame them.” "Assuming stupidity is an inherited trait, then no, I can't. View quote
Alastair Reynolds
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words. View quote
William Faulkner
Literature creates a fraternity within human diversity and eclipses the frontiers erected among men and women by ignorance, ideologies, religions, languages, and stupidity. (Mario Vargas Llosa)
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves. View quote
Carl Sagan
We are set irrevocably, I believe, on a path that will take us to the stars-unless in some monstrous capitulation to stupidity and greed, we destroy ourselves first. View quote
Carl Sagan
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. View quote
Carl Jung
Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents. View quote
Michel de Montaigne