Stupidity Quotes - Page 12

• Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

  Alexander Berkman

  Inhumanity

  Alexander Berkman (1912). “Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist”

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• Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Past, Errors, Years

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.282, Faber & Faber

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• Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Moving, Able, Used

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• Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.

  Bill Mollison

  Iron, Differences, Use

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• Beware of seriousness: it is a form of stupidity

  Alexander Waugh

  Form, Seriousness

  Alexander Waugh (2008). “Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family”, p.453, Anchor

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• Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.

  Hyman Rickover

  Stupid, Optimism

  United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Adm. H.G. Rickover : Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session”

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• There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been, and will be better than he.

  George Santayana

  Men, Joy, Benefits

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.59, 谷月社

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• Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations. Music can be used to stimulate mass emotion, while mathematics cannot; and musical incapacity is recognized (no doubt rightly) as mildly discreditable, whereas most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity

  G. H. Hardy

  Appreciation, Math, Names

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• Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.

  G. H. Hardy

  Math, Names, People

  G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.86, Cambridge University Press

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• No amount of intelligence can save you from stupidity.

  Tibor Fischer

  Amount

  Tibor Fischer (1997). “The Thought Gang”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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

  Yahoo Serious

  Art, Stupid, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.

  R. K. Milholland

  Funny, Life, Love Is

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• In the end, this world will go under because of the stupidity of people.

  George Harrison

  People, World, Ends

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• Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of the people. Best dictatorship would be one where lots of heads would roll and government would prevent any economical growth.

  Pentti Linkola

  Government, People, Growth

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• Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

  Cato the Elder

  Height, Sometimes, Fame

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• Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices.

  Richard Bach

  Funny, Beautiful, Wise

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• One cannot be betrayed if one has no people.

  Takeru Kobayashi

  People, Usual, Betrayed

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• If we had some eggs we could have eggs and ham, if we had some ham.

  Groucho Marx

  Eggs, Ham, Ifs

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• I'm only going one way.

  Babe Ruth

  Way, One Way

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• If England are going to win this match, they're going to have to score a goal.

  Jimmy Hill

  Winning, Goal, England

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• I love him for his sake;
  And yet I know him a notorious liar,
  Think him a great way fool, solely a coward;
  Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him
  That they take place when virtue's steely bones
  Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see
  Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

  William Shakespeare

  Liars, I Love Him, Thinking

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.217

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• Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Age, Doe

  1606 Cleopatra. Antony and Cleopatra, act1, sc.3, l.57.

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• But I remember now
  I am in this earthly world, where to do harm
  Is often laudable, to do good sometime
  Accounted dangerous folly.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Remember, Harm

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.310

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• The why is plain as way to parish church:
  He that a fool doth very wisely hit
  Doth very foolishly, although he smart,
  Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not,
  The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd
  Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Smart, Men

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, William Watkiss Lloyd, John Thompson, Thomas Stothard (1856). “As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night”, p.42

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• The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!

  William Shakespeare

  Ignorance, Common, Mankind

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1570

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