Stupidity Quotes - Page 18

• The photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because they were too lazy to finish their studies. Hence this universal infatuation was not only characterized by blindness and stupidity, but also by vindictiveness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Lazy, Talent, Study

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• Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.

  John D. Voelker

  Winning, Persistence, Sea

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• Tantric Buddhists don't believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Philosophy, Believe

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• Could there be a better answer to the stupidity of Karl Marx than millions of workers individually sharing in the ownership of the means of production.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wisdom, Mean, Answers

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• We can no longer ignore the stupidity of the hits that are still happening today despite the fact that the players know the concussion aspect is such a big part of the game and sports in general.

  Jeremy Roenick

  Sports, Player, Nhl

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• My films are misinterpreted all the time. I don't mind that. Everybody's films are misinterpreted. But there's no malice or stupidity in the people that misinterpret them. You know what you do, but someone else sees it, and they want to talk about it or write about it, and so they misinterpret them.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, People, Mind

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 13, 2008.

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• If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.

  Terry Gilliam

  Unique, Skins, Needs

  Source: www.cnn.com

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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

  Trying, Fundamentals, Firsts

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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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• In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

  Walter Bagehot

  Book, Writing, Genius

  Walter Bagehot (1986). “The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: Miscellany”

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• To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please--respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence; but we can't pardon our equals going beyond us.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Envy, Laughing, Suffering

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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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• 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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• 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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• Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Feelings, Noble

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