Stupidity Quotes - Page 10

• I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me that I may have felt intellectual. I entertained views too noble or too bitter to be true. I must have done some soul-stretching of my mental neck.

  Corra May Harris

  Smart, Views, Soul

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• Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Honesty, Stupid, Russia

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Funny, Thinking, America

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• My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Clever, Philosophy, Expectations

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• The prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was splendid and cruel. He was a god to them. He took their free will away from them, which was perfectly all right. They didn't want it anyway. It was as though they had surrendered themselves to Jesus, for instance, so they could live unselfishly and trustingly-except that they had surrendered to a pimp instead.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jesus, Pimp, Want

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

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• Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

  Johann Gottfried Seume

  Stupid, Mind, Body

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• Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Evil, Benefits, Satire

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• A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Power, Mind, Weak

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• One whose troops repeatedly congregate in small groups here and there, whispering together, has lost the masses. One who frequently grants rewards is in deep distress. One who frequently imposes punishments is in great difficulty. One who is at first excessively brutal and then fears the masses is the pinnacle of stupidity.

  Sun Tzu

  Punishment, Together, Groups

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• Man is a culture, nothing but a culture! Question your culture! Just like monkeys picking lice from their skin, get rid of the stupidities in your culture!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Skins, Culture

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• His mind scolded him for his stupidity and urged him to forget her but his heart had no justifications for its stand. It remained unmoved, its solidarity unaffected, its arrogance still holding.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Heart, Arrogance, Mind

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• I have always noticed that people only think you are stupid if you do things differently from them.

  Liza Cody

  Stupid, Thinking, People

  Liza Cody (1993). “Bucket Nut”, Doubleday Books

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

  John K. Fairbank

  Silly, Character, Tests

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

  Harry S. Truman

  Religious, Presidential, Church

  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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• A brain you can convince, a simpleton you have to persuade.

  Curt Goetz

  Ignorance, Brain, Convince

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• Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.

  Lewis Blaine Hershey

  Honesty, Smart, Stupid

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• Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Hip Hop, Epitome

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• One can overlook stupidity, until it evolves into malice.

  Lizabeth Scott

  Evolve, Malice

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• The foolhardy are not necessarily stupid, for fools simply follow their imagination whereas the stupid have none.

  Maurice Carter

  Stupid, Imagination, Fool

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• The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Love, Forgiveness, Philosophy

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• What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Funny, Fate, Destiny

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  The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

  Voltaire

  Ignorance, Appearance

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• Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

  Tryon Edwards

  Ignorance, Names, Would Be

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• A fool has more ideas than a wise man can foresee.

  Joseph Conrad

  Wise, Ignorance, Men

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• There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

  Gene Wolfe

  Ignorance, Space, Limits

  Gene Wolfe (1994). “Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.327, Macmillan

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