Stupidity Quotes - page 14

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting. (Marcus Buckingham)
Nothing conveys the feeling of infinity as much as stupidity does. View quote
Ödön von Horváth
Through failures one becomes intelligent; but the one who has trained himself in this subject so that he can make others wise through their own failures, has used his intelligence. Ignorance is not stupidity. View quote
Immanuel Kant
There was an attraction at first that Mr Baldwin should not be clever. But when he forever sentimentalises about his own stupidity, the charm is broken. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
The wiser head gives in! An immortal phrase. It founds the world dominion of stupidity. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed. View quote
Albert Einstein
Two things are infinite: the universe and the human stupidity. View quote
Albert Einstein
We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to do but won't, can't, or doesn't dare. Boredom is acute when he knows the other thing and inhibits his action, e. g., out of politeness, embarrassment, fear of punishment or shame. Boredom is chronic if he has repressed the thought of it and no longer is aware of it. A large part of stupidity is just the chronic boredom, for a person can't learn, or be intelligent about, what he's not interested in, when his repressed thoughts are elsewhere. View quote
Paul Goodman
Since Pharaoh's bits were pushed into the jaws of kings, these dyings-patient or impatient, but dyings-have happened, by the hundreds of millions; they were all wasted. They taught us to kill others and to die ourselves, but never how to live. Who is "taught to live” by cruelty, suffering, stupidity, and that occupational disease of soldiers, death? (Randall Jarrell)
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. View quote
Pope John Paul II
You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all. He'd probably say he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity. View quote
Markus Zusak
What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity. View quote
Mindy Kaling
Only ignorance excuses stupidity. View quote
Nalini Singh
I think all young women are cursed with a streak of unrelenting foolishness, and all young men are cursed with a streak of absolute stupidity. View quote
Neal Shusterman
Each man follows the path of destiny, but no two paths are alike. It seems that mine now runs into a place of evil intent, wasted wisdom, and stupidity. View quote
Andre Norton
[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity. View quote
Pascal Mercier
My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The world supports a multi-million dollar industry of intelligence and ability research, but it devotes virtually nothing to determine why this intelligence is squandered by engaging in amazing, breathtaking acts of stupidity. View quote
Robert Sternberg
Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure stupidity - or, rather, inattention, misinformation about fundamentals, and an exaggerated focus on currently circulating stories. (Robert J. Shiller)
If you hang around long enough, they think you're good. It's either my tenacity or stupidity - I'm not sure which. View quote
Adam West
Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith) View quote
Vince Flynn
Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide. View quote
Gary Shteyngart
I have sought you out to cure me.' 'To cure you of what?' 'Of this cursed affliction.' 'I cannot cure stupidity.' Scapegrace frowned. View quote
Derek Landy