Stupidity Quotes - page 2

The American people are very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity. (Will Rogers)
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. View quote
Scott Adams
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails. View quote
Milan Kundera
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. View quote
Albert Einstein
Earnestness is stupidity sent to college. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
If we had a keen vision and feeling it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of the roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. View quote
George Eliot
We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
Stupidity is a talent for misconception. (Edgar Allan Poe)
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity. View quote
Konrad Adenauer
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. View quote
Oscar Wilde
There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all. View quote
George Gissing
I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity. View quote
Chris Rock
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? View quote
Will Rogers
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. View quote
Robertson Davies
For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity. View quote
Saul Bellow
Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity. (Otto von Bismarck)
Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity. View quote
Albert Einstein
Goodness was more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love. even of people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, he said, it had to be fought for. View quote
Colum McCann
Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity. View quote
Bill Cosby
There is no patch for stupidity. View quote
Kevin Mitnick