Stupidity Quotes - Page 34

• As far as humanity is concerned the origin of stupidity is itself.

  William C. Brown

  Humanity, Concerned

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• The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.

  Giordano Bruno

  Law, World, Fool

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• Ignorance is always afraid of change.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Business, Ignorance, Reality

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. 'Fitness,' then, is only another name for 'survival.' Darwinism: That survivors survive.

  Charles Fort

  Names, Survival, Way

  Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.23, Penguin

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• The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it's not going to go up, don't buy it!

  Will Rogers

  Way, Making Money, Sells

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• I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Break, Watergate, Presidency

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• I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Hands, Wife

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.340, Grove Press

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• Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

  Stephen Fry

  Guarantees, Authenticity, Humour

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• I can’t believe you cheated! (Phobos) I can’t believe you didn’t know it. Man, what kind of god are you? I never knew stupidity had a divine representative. Guess I was wrong, huh? (Deimos)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Men, Kind

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• Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I’m not stupid. (Xypher) I didn’t say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mistake, Stupid, Moving

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• Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

  Max Brooks

  Believe, People, Weakness

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.32, Broadway Books

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• Why would you help us? (Delphine) I hear stupidity is a fatal disease. Doing my own experimentation to see if that’s true or not. If I survive, we’ll know it’s not. If I die…well, it’ll suck. Bad. And I won’t be happy. (Asmodeus)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Disease, Asmodeus, Helping

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.185, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• I want your opinion on the best way to proceed. (Eli) I’d start by killing your son and his crew of idiots before their stupidity spreads to anyone else and infects them. (Varyk)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Son, Want, Way

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• You asked my opinion and I gave it. Of course you have to remember that if I’d been on the island with Gilligan, he’d have been killed ten minutes into the first episode. Where I come from, incompetence and stupidity are reasons for justifiable homicide. (Varyk)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Islands, Firsts, Opinion

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters”, p.467, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• Oh. Sorry about the muzzle. But it was necessary to protect you from your own stupidity. (Thorn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sorry, Muzzle, Protect You

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.144, Macmillan

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• I’m going. But before I do, let me congratulate all of you on your stupidity. (Fury)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Let Me, Fury

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• Why are you helping me? (Fury) I don’t know. Apparently I’m having a moment of extreme stupidity. (Angelia)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Helping, Moments, Fury

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• Men. <...> They're idiots. It's like they all take a vow of stupidity or something.

  Cindy Gerard

  Men, Idiot, Vow

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• When people look you in the eye and call you stupid, dont look away, but tell them that half of the world is stupid and they are one of them because they are dening their own stupidity.

  Meg Cabot

  Stupid, Eye, People

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• We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who try to do so. Is it possible that, in their vanity and stupidity, they suppose that they can erase the name of Thomas Jefferson and replace it with the name of some faith-based mediocrity whose name is already obscure? If so, we cheerfully resolve to mock them, and to give them the lie in their teeth.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Lying, Writing

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• Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Hurt, Reason, Humans

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.50, Penguin

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• Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

  Albert Einstein

  Greed, Three, World

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• It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

  John Knowles

  War, Heart, Ignorant

  John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to live as long as possible, just to see how stupid it gets.

  Susan Sontag

  Stupid, Long, Want

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• There is no dunce like a mature dunce.

  George Santayana

  Mature, Dunces

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.30, Sheba Blake Publishing

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