Quotes with stupidity

  • There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others.

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  • Cato the Elder It is sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Stupidity is without anxiety.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Adolf Hitler Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Johann Gottfried Seume Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
    Johann Gottfried Seume
    German writer (1763 - 1810)
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  • Martin Luther King Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Albert Einstein Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Edwin H. Land Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
    Edwin H. Land
    American scientist and inventor (0 - 1991)
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  • Ayn Rand Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Bill Cosby Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Dame Edith Sitwell I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Will Rogers If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • George Eliot If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the best of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Oscar Wilde If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Paul Auster It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.
    Oracle Night (2009) 35
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • William Booth It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?
    William Booth
    English Methodist preacher (1829 - 1912)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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