Stupidity Quotes - Page 22

• A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as to persuade himself, that this most beautiful and adorned world was or could be produced by the fortuitous concourse of atoms.

  John Ray

  Beautiful, Stupid, Men

  John Ray (1827). “The Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of the Creation, etc”, p.36

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• Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Writing, Thinking, No Excuses

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• If the Church is 'in Christ,' she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as well as her words will convince the unbelievers and put their ignorance and stupidity to silence.

  David Bosch

  Ignorance, Character, Christian Inspirational

  David J. Bosch (2006). “Witness To The World: The Christian Mission in Theological Perspective”, p.82, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fear, Children, Men

  "True at First Light". Book by Ernest Hemingway, ch. 17, 1999.

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• Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Stupid, Race, Government

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• You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

  David Cronenberg

  Stupid, Believe, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Causes, Insult, Function

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• Then what difference does human striving make: mortal struggle, valor, pain? If you live, then live for the test of spirit, for the celebration of the heart. Live to fight on other days. Lose your beloveds one by one. And remember. Exalt the kiss of friend and horse and wind and sun, which venality cannot cheapen nor stupidity belittle.

  Janet Morris

  Horse, Pain, War

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• Here's how my brain works: It's stupidity, followed by self-hatred, and then further analysis.

  Louis C. K.

  Self, Hatred, Brain

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• Contrary to what people may say, there's no upper limit to stupidity.

  Stephen Colbert

  People, May, Limits

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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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• Hot oil! We need hot oil!... Forget the water balloons!

  Gary Larson

  Oil, Water, Hot

  Gary Larson, Steve (FRW) Martin (2003). “The Complete Far Side: 1980-1994”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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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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• If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Water, Religion

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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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• 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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• It's not how good you can play when you play good. It's how good you play when you play bad and we can play as bad as anyone in the country.

  Hugh Durham

  Country, Play

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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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• People who say that only young people voted on the Internet, those who didn't see Pele play, forget that children are not orphans. There's always a father who buys the computer and perhaps influences their vote. I won the people's vote.

  Diego Maradona

  Children, Father, Play

  "Snorting, Smuggling, and Spinning". www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2000.

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• My ex-wife is a water sign and I'm an earth sign. Together we made mud.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Water, Wife

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• Now suppose both death and hell were utterly defeated.  Suppose the fight was fixed.  Suppose God took you on a crystal ball trip into your future and you saw with indubitable certainty that despite everything — your sin, your smallness, your stupidity — you could have free for the asking your whole crazy heart’s deepest desire: heaven, eternal joy.  Would you not return fearless and singing?  What can earth do to you, if you are guaranteed heaven?  To fear the worst earthly loss would be like a millionaire fearing the loss of a penny — less, a scratch on a penny.

  Peter Kreeft

  Crazy, Heart, Loss

  Peter Kreeft (1989). “Heaven, the Heart's Deepest Longing”, p.82, Ignatius Press

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• To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course... We are all doomed; we are all poisoned from our birth by the rot of stars. That does not mean we should succumb...to the seductive fallacy of despair, the dark tide that would drown us. You may think I'm stupid, you may call me a madman and a fool, but at least I stand upright in a fallen world.

  Rick Yancey

  Stars, Stupid, Mean

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Isle of Blood”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• God has placed clear limits on Man’s intelligence, but none on his stupidity.

  John Corapi

  Men, Limits, Clear

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