Stupidity Quotes - page 18

Ender stepped under the water and rinsed himself, took the sweat of combat and let it run down the drain. All gone, except they recycled it and we'll be drinking Bonzo's blood water in the morning. All the life gone out of it, but his blood just the same, his blood and my sweat, washed down in their stupidity or cruelty or whatever it was that made them let it happen. (Orson Scott Card)
Winners made him sick with their arrogance, losers made him sick with their whining, and fighters made him sick with their stupidity. View quote
David Gemmell
It didn't work, so let's do it some more'? In my line of work, they call that military stupidity. I don't know what they call it in civilian life. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
If that isn't typical male stupidity! If something doesn't work, kick it or swear at it! View quote
Nora Roberts
Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe the former is disturbing. View quote
Abraham Maslow
Only the creatures of the earth take from one another, boy. All creatures, but men more than any. Life they take, and liberty, and all that another man may have-sometimes through greed, sometimes through stupidity, but never by any volition but their own. Beware your own race, Bran Davies-they are the only ones who will ever harm you, in the end. View quote
Susan Cooper
I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace. View quote
Hermann Hesse
There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness. View quote
Hermann Hesse
Books are still being written defaming H. P. B. and Mrs. Besant and one wonders what their writers hope to achieve. As far as I can ascertain the modern generation of investigating students are not the least interested in the pros or cons of their characters... What they are interested in is the teaching and the truth. This is wholesome and right. I wish these modern writers who spend months in raking up dirt and endeavoring to prove someone was vile would realise the stupidity of their activities. They do not touch the truth; they do not change the loyalties of those who know; they do not change the trend towards occult realisation and they hurt nobody but themselves. View quote
Alice Bailey
It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful. Ignorance is one thing, but our society thrives increasingly on stupidity. It depends on people going along with whatever they are told. The media promotes a cultivated stupidity as a posture that is not only acceptable but laudable. View quote
Anton LaVey
It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity. (P. D. James)
To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless. View quote
Julian Barnes
Time does to the body what stupidity does to the soul. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold "precious," and earth and soil "base"? People who do this ought to remember that if there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who would not spend a bushel of diamonds and rubies and a cartload of gold just to have enough earth to plant a jasmine in a little pot, or to sow an orange seed and watch it sprout, grow, and produce its handsome leaves, its fragrant flowers, and fine fruit. View quote
Galileo Galilei
The greatest of all sins is stupidity. View quote
Oscar Wilde
To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity. View quote
Don DeLillo
He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence. View quote
Michael Lewis (author)
Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile. View quote
Lewis Thomas
I am not sure that I do not begin to like the correction of a mistake, even when it involves my having shown much ignorance and stupidity, as well as I like hitting on a new idea. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show a truly staggering ability to "ignore" certain kinds of information - that which does not "fit" their imprinted/conditioned reality-tunnel. We generally call this "conservatism" or "stupidity", but it appears in all parts of the political spectrum, and in learned societies as well as in the Ku Klux Klan. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy. (Jean de La Bruyère)
Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity. View quote
Jonathan Franzen
I wanted to save our culture from the stupidity and the bigotry and the ignorance that threatened it. View quote
Donovan
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.