"I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid."

Banderas, Antonio on Stupidity
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"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?"

Booth, William on Stupidity
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"It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs."

Brown, Sherrill on Stupidity
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"The Cardinal is at his wit's end -- it is true that he had not far to go."

Byron, Lord on Stupidity
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"To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Stupidity
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

Einstein, Albert on Stupidity
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"The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity."

Ellison, Harlan on Stupidity
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"The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -- Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Stupidity
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"The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character."

Fairbank, John King on Stupidity
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"He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir."

Franklin, Benjamin on Stupidity
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"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."

Franklin, Benjamin on Stupidity
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"We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves."

Gauguin, Paul on Stupidity
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"Stupidity is without anxiety."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Stupidity
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"Man is the inventor of stupidity."

Gourmont, Remy De on Stupidity
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"There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man."

Hazlitt, William on Stupidity
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"An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head."

Hoffer, Eric on Stupidity
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"Stupidity often saves a man from going mad."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on Stupidity
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"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."

Hubbard, Elbert on Stupidity
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"It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so."

Jerome, Jerome K. on Stupidity
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"Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning."

Kraus, Karl on Stupidity
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"To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't."

Levi, Primo on Stupidity
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"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."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on Stupidity
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"Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless."

Proverb, Jewish on Stupidity
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"Stupidity is a force unto itself."

Proverb, Latin on Stupidity
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"If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"

Rogers, Will on Stupidity
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"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Stupidity
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"It is much easier for good to deal with evil than it is for good to deal with stupidity."

Unknown, Source on Stupidity
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"Stupidity is the friend of evil."

Unknown, Source on Stupidity
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"Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it."

Vizinczey, Stephen on Stupidity
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"It was absolutely marvelous working for Wolfgang Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no worry that he would think a particular question was stupid, since he thought all questions were stupid."

Weisskopf, Victor on Stupidity
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"The greatest of all sins is stupidity."

Wilde, Oscar on Stupidity
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"The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them."

Wilde, Oscar on Stupidity
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"Our greatest stupidities may be very wise."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on Stupidity
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