Quotes about stupidity

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

— Antonio Banderas

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

It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.

— Sherrill Brown

The Cardinal is at his wit's end -- it is true that he had not far to go.

— Lord Byron

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Albert Einstein

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

— Harlan Ellison

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.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.

— John King Fairbank

He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

— Paul Gauguin

Stupidity is without anxiety.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

— Remy De Gourmont

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

— William Hazlitt

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

— Eric Hoffer

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Elbert Hubbard

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

— Karl Kraus

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.

— Primo Levi

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.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless.

— Jewish Proverb

Stupidity is a force unto itself.

— Latin Proverb

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It is much easier for good to deal with evil than it is for good to deal with stupidity.

— Source Unknown

Stupidity is the friend of evil.

— Source Unknown

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

— Stephen Vizinczey

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.

— Victor Weisskopf

The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

— Oscar Wilde

The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

— Oscar Wilde

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Too much fame, money or alcohol can make you stupid.

— Jeffrey Fry

How can you effectively fight stupidity? The answer is simple: it’s not easy. Carl William Brown

— Source Unknown