stupidity quotes

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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.

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can’t bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory.

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

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

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

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

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

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.

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

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

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

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

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.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.