Top 133 Stupidity Quotes

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

It saddens me to see the reality-television shows that are getting so much fanfare that are a celebration of stupidity and the degradation of women. And those women are consistently wearing too short, too tight dresses. I hope the trend of aging gracefully returns.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

There is nothing like the way people feel after they’ve seen ‘The Intouchables.’ They feel amazing. The word of mouth on this film is incredible. It’s intelligent-feeling good. You’re not insulted by the low-browness or stupidity of some of the humor. It’s so smart and terrific.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Sometimes, there’s a fine line between bravery and utter stupidity. The day I decided to climb into a boxing ring for a professional fight was probably on the side of stupidity.

A great deal of stupidity has chipped away at the massive advantages of Western civilization, which could terminally decline if it remains on the current path. But these problems can be solved – and swiftly – if the right leaders emerge.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it’s obviously a form of stupidity.

You can’t argue with stupidity.

Supernatural does not mean methodological stupidity.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

I think, as you get older, you reflect at the silliness of your youth and the stupidity of some of the decisions that were made, and the ego and whatnot, or whatever played into it.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

I’m not about my breasts; I’m just about good health, OK. I’m not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don’t understand women who are in denial, who don’t want to go for a mammogram. I think it’s stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.

I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It’s a mark of stupidity.

‘Stupidity’ defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we’ve never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we’ve never felt stupider. We now collectively inhabit a state of stupidity.

I’m afraid that eating in restaurants reflects one’s experiences with movies, art galleries, novels, music – that is, characterized by mild amusement but with an overall feeling of stupidity and shame. Better to cook for yourself.

Stupidity really gets me going, when it’s just plain stupid, obvious stupidity.

As long as ‘Pearl Harbor’ stays in the past, it’s perfect; when it wretchedly changes gears in the late going, it becomes the wrong kind of same old story: Hollywood stupidity and callowness, writ large across the sky.

I have met with some of them – very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.

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

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.

To think that we can understand everything is such stupidity because our senses are so limited. We are so limited that to feel that we can understand the creation scientifically is a little bit naive. It’s very childish.

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.

Crashing is never funny, but sometimes you can jump up, laugh at your stupidity, and go, ‘What the hell was that?’

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

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

So much of existence is so boring. To have little moments of stupidity is always welcome.

The music industry’s actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn’t it?

French courts are backward and politically correct, which is the height of stupidity.

What Democrats call ‘nuanced’, most people refer to as ‘stupidity.’

You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I’m basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity.

We spend to pretend that we’re upper class. And when the dust clears – when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity – there’s nothing left over. Nothing for the kids’ college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.

If you hang around long enough, they think you’re good. It’s either my tenacity or stupidity – I’m not sure which.

You can fix a lot of things, but you cannot fix stupidity.

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

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

I’m sure there have been a lot of boys I’ve chased over the years that has been fueled by alcohol and stupidity. But that’s kind of how things happen – sometimes you have to do something really stupid, and sometimes it works out, and sometimes you fall flat on your face.

You’ll find that no pride is greater than the pride that comes with being thick. Britain is filled with people who are really proud of their stupidity.

My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A lot of people have really beautiful tattoos, and I get real tattoo envy. But then other people basically just treat them like bumper stickers for their bodies.

If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.