Proper stupidity is fascinating.
I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it’s counter-productive to immediately associate anything ‘girly’ with vanity or stupidity.
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it.
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
I always told myself that if I was going to be given a voice, I might as well say something worth listening to and not something that’s just going to feed people stupidity.
In a world that’s smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.
Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.
I get amazed, I can’t look at it but about 10 seconds, at these politicians dancing around this, dancing around this, I’m trying to find a correct name for it, this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men.
People’s ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can’t help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it’s hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?
Repeating third grade at a new school, after having been asked to leave my old one for hitting kids who made fun of my perceived stupidity, I was placed in the ‘dummy class.’
I think that Mr. Obama is not just inexperienced; he is also hampered by a distinct inner emptiness – not an emptiness that comes from stupidity or a lack of ability but an emptiness that has been actually nurtured and developed as an adaptation to the political world.
To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government – from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration – could fill committee agendas for years.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
I would argue further that Barack Obama’s election to the presidency of the United States was essentially an American sophistication, a national exercise in seeing what was not there and a refusal to see what was there – all to escape the stigma not of stupidity but of racism.
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
East Coast, West Coast, all that needs to cease. Everyone wants hip-hop to be this big empire, but we’re not going to get to the level we want to get to because of the stupidity.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts.
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.
Social media and smart phones have become an inevitable part of our lives. We shouldn’t be under their control, which is wrong. It is mere stupidity, and we must be aware of everything around us.
I run into a lot of ignorance and stupidity. It gets really frustrating, but you have to take yourself out of it and realize what’s happening in the bigger picture.
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
Stupidity knows no bounds and certainly no city limits, but by and large, 99 percent of the people who come to Melvins shows seem to be relatively well behaved… I’m happy and relieved by this.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
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?
Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.
You can’t legislate against stupidity.
There’s a perennial debate about whether the propagandistic tripe produced by establishment media outlets is shaped more by evil or by stupidity. Personally, I think it’s both: a healthy dose of each is needed. The system design is malicious, while those who serve as its public face are generally vacant.
The use of philosophy is to sadden. A philosophy which saddens no one, that annoys no one, is not a philosophy. It is useful for harming stupidity, for turning stupidity into something shameful. Its only use is the exposure of all forms of baseness of thought.
The reality of America is mass-market stupidity.
There are many paths to God. What really bothers me – and what I think is the height of arrogance and stupidity – is when one group believes their way is the only way. That really gets my dander up.
Stupidity fuses notoriety and celebrity.
Do not ever say that the desire to ‘do good’ by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
I don’t get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there’s no rehab for stupidity.
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.
I’m even handed. I just point out the stupidity we all do.
Man is the inventor of stupidity.
We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Stupidity without malice isn’t horrible; some people can’t help it.
People get a kick out of my stupidity.
What I’d really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.
An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.
Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, ‘What am I doing with my life?’ I started to think about why I was a comedian, and then I came up with a reason for existence, which is: inserting absurdity or stupidity into strangers’ lives in order to make the world a better place.
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood – we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
I will do whatever is necessary to make better the stupidity on my part – and therefore go after those who are acting stupid themselves. It’s not popular. You don’t make friends when you do that. And I couldn’t care less.
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
I’d rather spend my time with grape growers than actors. In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.
Racism is endemic to the human condition, just as stupidity is. We will always have to be on guard against it. But now it is recognized as a scourge, as the crowning immorality of our age and our history.
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