Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georges Courteline

To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.

Jawaharlal Nehru

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

Ernest Hemingway

Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.

Gore Vidal

The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.

George Bernard Shaw

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

George Bernard Shaw

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

Franz Kafka

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

George Jean Nathan

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.

Christine Feehan

Don't cater to stupidity.

George Orwell

What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

George Orwell

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

Jean Cocteau

Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.

George Eliot

To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?

Jaron Lanier

Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.

Frank Herbert

Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

Jesse Ventura

You can't legislate stupidity.

Jesse Ventura

You can't legislate against stupidity.

Karin Slaughter

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

Kim Harrison

I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison

Gerard Depardieu

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

H. L. Mencken

Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

Giacomo Casanova

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.

Horace Greeley

Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.

Leonard Woolf

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

Leon Trotsky

The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

Kevin Mitnick

You can't go to Windows Update and get a patch for stupidity.

Kevin Mitnick

There is no patch for stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

There's no sin but stupidity.