Stupidity Quotes

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ignorance, Nothing, Dangerous

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein

Between, Genius, Difference

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein

Human, Two, Universe

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ignorance, Nothing, Dangerous

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

Love, Power, Society

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Hunter S. Thompson

Society, Guilty, Getting

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.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Bad, Optimism

There is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar Wilde

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Robert A. Heinlein

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
Frank Zappa

Universe, Building, Basic

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Forget, Purpose, Commonest

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Women, Men, Stupid

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

War, Hate, Soldier

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
Pope John Paul II

God, Gift, Misuse

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?
Charlie Sheen

Time, Children, Down

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Edgar Allan Poe

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Politics, Handicap

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
Will Rogers

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

May, Genius, Thus

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

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
Albert Camus

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

Good, Desire, Nor

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
Stephen Hawking

Greed, Small, Cannot

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
Frank Zappa

Life, Universe, Longer

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
Ayn Rand

Money, Men, Reason

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

Life, Wish, Sometimes

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
Sarah McLachlan

Ignorance, Help, Understand

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

Patience, Alcohol, Infinite

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
Victor Hugo

Vanity, Acts, Talks

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Michel de Montaigne

Best, Opinion, Stubborn

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