Stupidity Quotes

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
William Gaddis

Ignorance, Deliberate

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
Karl Kraus

Force, Earthquake, Match

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
Paul Gauguin

Until, Ourselves

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.
Tom Coburn

Government, Food, Waste

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

Great, Together, Put

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.
William E. Gladstone

Friend, Her, Rather

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

Courage, Against, Military

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

Best, End, Fight

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

Incredible, Obviously

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.
Joni Mitchell

Heart, Broken, Face

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
Jean Rostand

Faith, Bad, Same

What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.
Mindy Kaling

Romantic, Past, Saying

I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.
Brett Favre

There is nothing like the way people feel after they've seen 'The Intouchables.' They feel amazing. The word of mouth on this film is incredible. It's intelligent-feeling good. You're not insulted by the low-browness or stupidity of some of the humor. It's so smart and terrific.
Harvey Weinstein

Humor, Good, Amazing

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

Mind, Body, Idleness

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.
Lewis Thomas

Time, Good, Mistakes

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

Malice, Attribute, Reasonably

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
Stephen Vizinczey

Education, Learning, May

What Democrats call 'nuanced,' most people refer to as 'stupidity.'
Evan Sayet

Call, Democrats, Refer

You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.
Franz Grillparzer

Stupid, Friend, Almost

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.
Reed Hastings

Few, Times, Act

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.
Louise Bogan

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.
Jello Biafra

Music, Important, Punk

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

Mankind, Nations, Capacity

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.
Robertson Davies

Time, Society, Nonsense

The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?
Ronnie James Dio

Life, Music, Time

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

Same, Language, Handle

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
Alexander Berkman

War, Means, Blind

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

Men, Trying, Find

Man is the inventor of stupidity.
Remy de Gourmont

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