Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
Friedrich Schiller

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.
David Hare

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.
P. J. O'Rourke

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
Erwin Rommel

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
Edwin Land

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
Ayn Rand

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'Rourke

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Frank Leahy

Every creative act is a sudden cessation of stupidity.
Edwin Land

Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.
Manfred von Richthofen

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

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
Gustave Flaubert

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
Adolf Hitler

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.
John Malkovich

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.
Chris Rock

I get amazed, I can't look at it but about 10 seconds, at these politicians dancing around this, dancing around this, I'm trying to find a correct name for it, this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men.
Jimmy Swaggart

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower