117 Quotes Tagged: stupidity

Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties.

If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can't get us out.

People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are.

"Getting even was the basis of many primate semantic confusions, such as"expropriating the expropriators," "an absolute crime demands an absolute penalty," "they did it to me so I can do it to them," and, in general, the emotional mathematics of "one plus one equals zero" (1 + 1 = 0).

The primates were so dumb they didn't realize that one plus one equals two (1 + 1 = 2) and one murder plus one murder equals two murders, one crime plus one crime equals two crimes, etc."

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

But if we reason it out simply and not try to be one bit fancy, then what sort of pride can you possibly take or what's the sense of ever having it, if man is poorly put together as a physiological type and if the enormous majority of the human race is brutal, stupid, and profoundly unhappy?

Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity, especially when it comes to bureaucrats in a government who has no clueabout money matters

The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.