Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Glasgow

There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

Heidi Julavits

I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I the stupidity of living in the moment, and spend every dull, amazing second with me.

Hesiod

The fool knows after he has suffered.

Hesiod

He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.

Heraclitus

Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Stupidity is without anxiety.

Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads.

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.

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?

Gore Vidal

The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.

Jean-Paul Sartre

One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

Georges Courteline

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

Christopher Hitchens

There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement of IQ.

George Santayana

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.

George Santayana

There is no dunce like a mature dunce.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There's no defense against stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

Franz Grillparzer

Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.

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 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.

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.