Stupidity Quotes

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.

Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was.Where people went ...

Right!""Right!""You can get there!""I can get there!""You're a natural at counting to two!""I'm a na...

If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunders...

No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be i...

All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind.

The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

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

If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can't get us out.

If stupidity got us into this, why can't stupidity get us out?

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are pe...

...It was borne in upon her audience that the outside of Jane's charming head was distinctly superio...

Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

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

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

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out ma...

For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great mo...

Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowle...

Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to thin...

But if we reason it out simply and not try to be one bit fancy, then what sort of pride can you poss...

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the s...

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encounter...

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

You are an unusual, brilliant child who has not seen enough of life to grasp the full measure of hum...

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously tran...

I'm always amazed at the human capacity to not make fundamental changes, but instead merely adapt. I...

I hate stupidity, but what I hate even more is when people actually brag about it.

You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it...

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

Don’t do anything stupid.""Don’t worry," I whispered over the line, "I’m an expert on stupid.""You’r...

Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity - that was how to get stuff done.

I ain't grouchy,” Teft snapped. “I just have a low threshold for stupidity.

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired...

This is laid down with a groove funkier and blacker than anything Prince of Michael Jackson--or any ...

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly o...

This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.

To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparab...

I'm allergic to stupidity.

The sad thing is that so many people, in the belief that the universe is organized to suit and influ...

We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any...

We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On ever...

So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the ha...

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went f...

Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.

I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on ...

If you have the power to hit people over the head whenever you want, you don’t have to trouble yours...

Bureaucracies, I've suggested, are not themselves forms of stupidity so much as they are ways of org...

This is of course why violence is so often the preferred weapon of the stupid. One might even call i...

Falderson," he said quietly to Bahzell in passable Navahkan, "is as stupid as the day is long." He c...

...there was an almost terrifying lack of intelligence in his eyes.

Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.

Silly,' he said with mock serenity, 'isn't a word you should ever apply to people. They may be total...

Why are free spirits always so fucking dumb?

The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of m...

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly less stupid than we are to accept truths tha...

You and I, Ella, we are the failures. We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more s...

One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to d...

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futil...

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

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' ca...

The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy."Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it...

Careful, Mr. Spiro, guns are dangerous. Especially the end with the hole.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?''Of course. Who said it?''I don't know.''He wa...

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a com...

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the ...

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

It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.

Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-dispos...

Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; an...

Freedom to breed will bring ruin to all.

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, ...

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

You're just another american who is willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick being sho...

worms have crawled up your nose and eaten your wits.

Is that gallantry I smell, or just stupidity? The two scents are much alike, as I recall.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of int...

Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

I tell you, stupidity, self-protective stupidity, is the fundamental sin. No man alive has a right t...

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water...

And the German society of eighty million people had been shielded against reality and factuality by ...

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.

Stupidity is doomed,therefore, to cringeat every syllableof wisdom.

What a queer gamble our existence is. We decide to do A instead of B and then the two roads diverge ...

As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, som...

I’m not too sure what the name of the song was that he was playing when I came in, but whatever it w...

Prof McGonagall : ... bravery doesn't forgive stupidity. ...

Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.