Stupidity Quotes - Page 15

• I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity. These antitheses are mediated in a higher unity; in our common stupidity.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Clever, Philosophy, Stupid

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• If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.

  Robertson Davies

  Life, Government, Interest

  "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks". Book by Robertson Davies, 1949.

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• Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many fools to hide behind his too-appropriate order to assume leadership of the forces of stupidity he has marshalled, or his enemies will unmask him in order to better understand the disease that has produced such a warped and twisted mind.

  Orson Scott Card

  Leadership, Wise, Men

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.157, Tor Science Fiction

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• One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Stupid, Learning, Prejudice

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.255, John Wiley & Sons

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• The most abundant element in the Universe is stupidity

  Frank Zappa

  Hydrogen Fuel, Elements, Universe

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

  George Lindsey

  Paper, Toilets, Saws

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• Look out! Behind you!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Looks, Behind You, Behinds

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• One cannot be betrayed if one has no people.

  Takeru Kobayashi

  People, Usual, Betrayed

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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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• I believe that this country's policies should be heavily biased in favor of nondiscrimination.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Believe, Favors

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.487, Best Books on

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• That's a wise substitution by Terry Venables: three fresh man, three fresh legs.

  Jimmy Hill

  Wise, Men, Three

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• On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why doesn't the plane just become a boat?

  Sam Ewing

  Flight, Boat, Used

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• Too many piglets not enough tits.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Piglet, Enough

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• Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres!

  Jerry Coleman

  Wall, Way, Rolling

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• A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite a lot of million light years from end to end. As it closed up [...] Two hundred and thirty-nine thousand lightly fried eggs fell out of it...materializing in a large woobly heap on the famine-struck land of Poghril in the Pansel system. The whole Poghril tribe had died out from famine except for one last man who died of cholesterol poisoning some weeks later.

  Douglas Adams

  Men, Light, Years

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