1,074 Quotes About Stupidity



  • Author C. S. Lewis
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    We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating will admit that we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

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  • Author Georg C. Lichtenberg
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    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.

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

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  • Author George Mikes
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    To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.

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