Stupidity Quotes - Page 35

• The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Fool, Advantage

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Doe, Cash

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.

  Bertrand Russell

  Evil, Important, Mankind

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.143, Routledge

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• The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Needs, World, Madmen

  Conversations with Goethe Johann Peter Eckermann 17 March (1830).

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• Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

  Gelett Burgess

  Men, Knowing, Reason

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• A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

  Aeschylus

  Fool, Burden, Prosperous

  Fragment 383. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Stupid, Criticism, Taste

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• There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Stupid, Would Be, Fraud

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.60

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• There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Men, World, Four

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• Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Doors, Fool, Folly

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.44, Shambhala Publications

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• Those who realise their folly are not true fools.

  Zhuangzi

  Fool, Folly, Realising

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• All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.

  George Jean Nathan

  Platforms, Raises, Profundity

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Lonely, Sarcasm, Rights

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• It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Clever, Stupid

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• Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Stupid, Public Opinion, Reign

  "Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society: Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues".

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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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• Never feel dumb. Not knowing who or what is no sin. Ignorance is simply the measure of what you haven't got to yet. I find writers and works every day that I haven't got to, haven't even heard of.

  Thomas C Foster

  Ignorance, Knowing, Dumb

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• In time, you'll see a thin line between friend and rival.
  Between you and me: stupidity and men's bravado.

  Ka

  Rap, Men, Hip Hop

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• An all encompassing uncertainty on the part of any person is either a sign of utter stupidity or extreme intelligence. Only the not so dumb, or the not so smart, are ever certain about anything.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Smart, Dumb

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• It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

  George Eliot

  Clever, Pigeons, Talent

  George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.265, Courier Corporation

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• The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dog, Stones, Bites

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.49, Penguin

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• Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".

  Leonard Woolf

  Letters, Faces, Keynes

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• As if there were safety in stupidity alone

  Henry David Thoreau

  Safety, Ifs

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.330, Penguin

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• Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Want, Proof, Depravity

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