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Stupidity Quotes

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Chuck Palahniuk
“The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Phoenix

Jennifer L. Armentrout
“Actually, I was prone to random acts of stupidity. I considered it to be one of my talents.”
Jennifer L. Armentrout, Daimon

Jonas Jonasson
“Allan Emmanuelle Karlsson closed his eyes and felt perfectly convinced that he would now pass away for ever. It had been exciting, the entire journey, but nothing lasts for ever, except possibly general stupidity.”
Jonas Jonasson, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

Brian McGreevy
“Fear is a communicable disease; it comes out in the sweat and passes from host to host. Fear is an incendiary agent; it combusts with stupidity.”
Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove

Jen Campbell
“CUSTOMER (to their friend): God, the Famous Five titles realy were crap, weren’t they? Five Go Camping. Five Go Off in a Caravan.... If it was Five Go Down To a Crack House it might be a bit more exciting.”
Jen Campbell, Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops

Lois McMaster Bujold
“The fourth approved approach for the problem of frontally attacking a guarded wormhole was to shoot the officer who suggested it.”
Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game

“Listen, last time I talked to you three, you were all two oars short of having any oars, so I don't want to hear it.”
James Riley, Twice Upon a Time

Orson Scott Card
“Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to an understanding of anything at all. And yet they think they understand. From earliest childhood, they delude themselves into thinking they comprehend the world, while all that's really going on is that they've got some primitive assumptions and prejudices. As they get older they learn a more elevated vocabulary in which to express their mindless pseudo- knowledge and bully other people into accepting their prejudices as if they were truth, but it all amounts to the same thing. Individually, human beings are all dolts.

Pequenino: While collectively...

Hive Queen: Collectively, they're a collection of dolts. But in all their scurrying around and pretending to be wise, throwing out idiotic half-understood theories about this and that, one or two of them will come up with some idea that is just a little bit closer to the truth than what was already known. And in a sort of fumbling trial and error, about half the time the truth actually rises to the top and becomes accepted by people who still don't understand it, who simply adopt it as a new prejudice to be trusted blindly until the next dolt accidentally comes up with an improvement.>

Pequenino: So you're saying that no one is ever individually intelligent, and groups are even stupider than individuals-- and yet by keeping so many fools engaged in pretending to be intelligent, they still come up with some of the same results that an intelligent species would come up with.

Hive Queen: Exactly.”
Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

Donna Lynn Hope
“You can not argue with stupid but you can certainly play with it.”
Donna Lynn Hope

Jack Campbell
“Fast and stupid is still stupid. It just gets you to stupid a lot quicker than humans could on their own. Which, I admit, is an accomplishment," she added, "because we're pretty damn good at stupid.”
Jack Campbell, Invincible

Carlo M. Cipolla
“No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that:

a) people whom one had once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid.

b) day after day, with unceasing monotony, one is harassed in one's activities by stupid individuals who appear suddenly and unexpectedly in the most inconvenient places and at the most improbable moments.”
Carlo M. Cipolla

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
“El idiota cree que todos son idiotas menos él.”
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Kappa

Julian Barnes
“What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together”
Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

M.F. Moonzajer
“If my stupidity makes you smile, I rather prefer to act always as stupid.”
M.F.Moonzajer

M.F. Moonzajer
“I am not sure how evil religion by nature is, but I have no doubt of its stupidity and insanity in practice.”
M.F. Moonzajer

Raheel Farooq
“Stupidity is not a behavior; it's a religion. One can die for it!”
Raheel Farooq

Jorge Luis Borges
“So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature.”
Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories

“A decision made during a moment of weakness can ruin your life.
        To date, I had made three.”
Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura

M.F. Moonzajer
“Most of your heritage comes from your culture, stupidity is one of them.”
M.F. Moonzajer

Carl Henegan
“I consider myself a synthetic thinker in a virtual domain therefore if I’m way off there is no solid foundation or reference for authentic stupidity.”
Carl Henegan, Darkness Left Undone

M.F. Moonzajer
“I belong to a stupid nation that kill and murder their own people for language and religion, then they call it foreigners interference.”
M.F. Moonzajer

M.F. Moonzajer
“We all have been given a gift; if you have not sort it out yet, yours is stupidity.”
M.F. Moonzajer

M.F. Moonzajer
“Bravery is the stupidity of heart.”
M.F. Moonzajer

M.F. Moonzajer
“I think we have underestimated their Gods; they have made millions stupid, and we are even not able to get one out of that stupidity.”
M.F. Moonzajer

Herman Melville
“Ничто так не выделяло этого человека, как его очевидная, обезличивающая тупость; я говорю - обезличивающая, потому что она так незаметно сливалась с окружающей бесконечностью, что казалась неотделимой частью всеобъемлющей безмятежной тупости этого видимого мира, который хоть и пребывает в беспрерывном движении всевозможных видов, тем не менее сохраняет вечный покой и знать вас не желает, даже если вы роете фундаменты для божьих соборов.”
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

M.F. Moonzajer
“Be a hero or enjoy fucking life, don’t try to be bunch of stupid flesh acting as normal humans.”
M.F. Moonzajer

M.A. George
“Me?...Stupid?� I fluttered my eyes innocently. “When have I ever done anything stupid?�

“Don’t get me wrong, you’re the smartest person I know…� She fought back a smile. “But you have done some of the dumbest things I ever thought possible.�

“So you have a point…� I shrugged. “Still not stopping me.”
M.A. George, Relativity

“For every criminal mastermind, there were ten cretins: the cruel algebra of intelligence applied across the masses.”
John Nardizzi, Telegraph Hill

“I'm stupid. Stupidity makes me human!
.29.”
Nova Riyanti Yusuf, Libido Junkie

Chamera Sampson
“I was that stupid, I realized. I was also stupid enough not to realize that sometimes even the most beautiful souls need to be shown love once in a while.”
Chamera Sampson, In My Face