Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesse Ventura

You can't legislate stupidity.

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.

Gerald R. Ford

I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in.

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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

Gracie Allen

They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it.

Ginger Rogers

I cannot abide stupidity, in myself or in others.

Jonathan Gruber

The stupidity of the American voter is exceeded only by its slovenliness.

Jonathan Gruber

Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.

Ovid

Simplicity, very rare in our age.

Paullina Simons

I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.

Paul Westerberg

Having a diverse sense of taste - or lack of taste - I loved so many different things. I was drawn to the stupidity and excitement of glam, I had a thorough upbringing in rhythm and blues.

R. A. Salvatore

Never confuse honor with stupidity!

George Lindsey

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

Joe Abercrombie

There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

Larry Niven

Stupidity is always a capital crime.

Gustave Flaubert

Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.

Josh Billings

You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.

Leonard Woolf

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

Oscar Wilde

The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

There's no sin but stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

The only sin is stupidity.

Lorraine Hansberry

I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!

Michel de Montaigne

A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.

Michel de Montaigne

Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?

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.