Stupidity Quotes

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Edgar Allan Poe

If there were a master of stupidity in this world, I would really love to listen to his success story.

Toba Beta

The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that time.

Gary Malone

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

Carl Sagan

When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.

Dejan Stojanovic

If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!

Terry Pratchett

Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.

Friedrich von Schiller

[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.

Stephen Hawking

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

George Bernard Shaw

Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

Christopher Hitchens

Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was.Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

Terry Pratchett

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

J.K. Rowling

Irony is wasted on the stupid

Oscar Wilde

A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.

Samuel Johnson

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

Jane Austen

As if there were safety in stupidity alone

Henry David Thoreau

For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

Aldous Huxley

We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.

Christopher Hitchens

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

Samuel Goldwyn

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

Samuel Goldwyn