1,074 Quotes About Stupidity
- Author George Eliot
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Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.
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- Author Liane Moriarty
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Only a man could come up with something so ruthless, so essentially stupid and yet brutally effective.
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- Author William Blake
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I care not whether a man is Good or Evil; all that I care Is whether he is a Wise man or a Fool. Go! put off Holiness, And put on Intellect; or my thund’rous hammer shall drive thee To wrath, which thou condemnest, till thou obey my voice.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Intelligence without wisdom is a like a car without a steering wheel. You can drive it as long as you don’t consider steering part of driving.
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- Author Richard Smyth
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I was well-read but perhaps that only made me stupid.
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- Author Anthony Liccione
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People usually will remember people most, for the stupid things they did, than the impressionable ones. This somehow strangely, makes them feel better.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart.
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- Author Robin Sacredfire
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Took me a few years to understand what intelligence is; Took me an entire lifetime to understand ignorance. I still haven't found an explanation for ignorance, because the ignorant are too ignorant to justify their ignorance.
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- Author Chris Pavone
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Kate was never going to understand the extent to which men were stupid.
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