I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
Giacomo Casanova

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.
George Grosz

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.
Tilda Swinton

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
Johann G. Seume

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
Francis Parker Yockey

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

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

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

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
Konrad Adenauer

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.
Jerome Cady

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.
George Gissing

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.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
Vartan Gregorian

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
Remy de Gourmont

Man is the inventor of stupidity.
Remy de Gourmont

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

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
Yahoo Serious

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov

Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.
Spider Robinson