Stupidity Quotes - Page 14

• No one is born with hate in their heart. Hate is something that has been taught. It is not an innate survival skill that we need; It is a form of stupidity that penetrates our minds and will eventually destroy us.

  Frank Iero

  Hate, Heart, Skills

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• Stupidity is not another form of knowledge.

  Bill Maher

  Form

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• Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity.

  Carl Icahn

  Money, People, Entrepreneur

  "Carl Icahn buys stake in Botox-maker Allergan", www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2016.

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• God's love never ceases. Never. Though we spurn him. Ignore him. Reject him. Despise him. Disobey him. He will not change. Our evil cannot diminish his love. Our goodness cannot increase it. Our faith does not earn it any more than our stupidity jeopardizes it. God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases.

  Max Lucado

  Evil, Succeed, Doe

  Max Lucado (2003). “Just Like Jesus Devotional: A Thirty-Day Walk with the Savior”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The world has made everything else and still it can't make peace. And the reason it can't make peace is because of the evil, ignorance and stupidity. I have songs that explain these facts. And that's the blues.

  Willie Dixon

  Song, Ignorance, Evil

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• This would be a better place for children if parents had to eat spinach.

  Groucho Marx

  Children, Parent, Would Be

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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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• 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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• 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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• I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.

  Tilda Swinton

  Kindness, People, Trying

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  Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Silence, Mammals

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.140, Basic Books

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• I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children.

  Alain Delon

  Jobs, Children, Three

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

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• In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Giving, Credit, Too Much

  "Pelosi's Armenian gambit". jewishworldreview.com. October 19, 2007.

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• I am infected with your stupidity.

  Ryan Dunn

  Your Stupid

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• I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?

  A. O. Scott

  Differences, Dumb, Watches

  "One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Autobots" by A.O. Scott, www.nytimes.com. June 28, 2011.

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• Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the inexhaustible, stupidity is also that which fatigues knowledge and wears down history.

  Avital Ronell

  Running, Home, Winning

  Avital Ronell (2002). “Stupidity”, p.3, University of Illinois Press

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• Judging by the the movie's enduring popularity, the message that stupidity is redemption is clearly what a lot of Americans want to hear.

  Jonathan Rosenbaum

  Judging, Redemption, Want

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• Long live gravity! Long live
  stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces
  of fantasy capitalism!

  Wendell Berry

  Errors, Long, Greed

  Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stanley, David Loy, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim (2013). “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”, p.80, The Golden Sufi Center

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• Only it’s just the same. In fact, do you know, because of all that pressure, and worry, and fear, it’s worse. There aren’t many men who think clearest when the stakes are highest. So people are even stupider in a war than the rest of the time. Thinking about how they’ll dodge the blame, or grab the glory, or save their skins, rather than about what will actually work There’s no job that forgives stupidity more than soldiering. No job that encourages it more.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Jobs, War, Men

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• Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Pain, Stupid, Class

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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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• 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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• I saw with open eyes, Singing birds sweet, Sold in the shops, For the people to eat, Sold in the shops of, Stupidity Street.

  Ralph Hodgson

  Sweet, Eye, People

  Ralph Hodgson (2004). “The Last Blackbird and Other Poems by Ralph Hodgson”

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