Quotes on Stupidity And Intelligence

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

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

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

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

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

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

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

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.