Human Stupidity Quotes

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

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Hilarious, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sad, Stupid, Silly

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.36, Penguin

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• The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Hilarious, Silly

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• Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Stupidity, Earth, Limitless

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• Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stupidity, Underestimate, Attributes

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• The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Funny, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

  Aldous Huxley

  Religious, Spring, Idols

  Aldous Huxley (2003). “Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience”, Crossroad 8 Avenue

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• As Albert Einstein once said to me: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity." But what is much more widespread than the actual stupidity is the playing stupid, turning off your ear, not listening, not seeing.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Stupid, Two, Listening

  "Gestalt Theory Verbatim". Book by Frederick Salomon Perls, p. 33, 1969.

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• There is a limit to human intelligence, but there is no limit to human stupidity

  Piero Scaruffi

  Inspirational, Stupidity, Limits

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• No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that:a) people whom one had once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid.b) day after day, with unceasing monotony, one is harassed in one's activities by stupid individuals who appear suddenly and unexpectedly in the most inconvenient places and at the most improbable moments.

  Carlo M. Cipolla

  Stupid, Intelligent, People

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• Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.

  Harry S. Truman

  Religious, Stupidity, Presidential

  Harry S. Truman (2015). “Where the Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman”, p.146, New Word City

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• The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupidity, Trying, Fundamentals

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• Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Stupidity, Underestimate, Wealth

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• It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Silly, Stupid People, Cynical

  "The Nine Satanic Sins". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1987.

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

  Harlan Ellison

  Funny, Life, Stupid

  Harlan Ellison, Arnie Fenner (2011). “Bugf#ck: The Useless Wit & Wisdom of Harlan Ellison”

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• There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears.

  Victor Hugo

  Nature, Ignorance, Mean

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• He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.

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• The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Education

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• Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

  Carlo M. Cipolla

  Stupid, Numbers, Underestimate

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• It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

  C. S. Lewis

  Stupidity, Poverty, Humans

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• All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

  Nikola Tesla

  Struggle, Past, Trials And Tribulations

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe

  Albert Einstein

  Badass, Two, Stupidity

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• Never underestimate human stupidity.

  Pittacus Lore

  Stupid, Underestimate, Humans

  Pittacus Lore (2012). “I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Fallen Legacies”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2003). “Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity”, George Braziller

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• If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lying, Writing, Men

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, ch. 127, 1963.

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