Quotes on Stupidity

As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and realize that, if we were not, we would be God. The art of gentleness toward ourselves leads to being gentle with others -- and is a natural prerequisite for our presence to God in prayer.

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.

It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.

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.

Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.

Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

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

If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.