1,074 Quotes About Stupidity

There is something stupid about raw events of which Destiny, if it exists, cannot be insensible. There is something stupid about self-evidence and truth from which a superior irony cannot but spare us. Thus everything is expiated one way or another. Forgetting or mourning are no more then the period of time required by reversibility.

Who in this mad world is stupider than the person who always needs to be right?

Ignorance shuts the mind’s door tight; wisdom swings it wide open.

Human stupidity: the ultimate global disaster.

A cop is a human creature born stupid and raised in stupidity.

Love is stupid. Happiness is admitting we aren't better than stupid.

At that moment, as I looked this man in the eye, I was reminded of Hanlon's razor, a philosophical notion that states one should never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. It occurred to me just then that, conversely, one ought never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by malice.

What separates stupidity and smartness is just a tittle of pride and overconfidence.

Dogs, by this same logic, bark at what they cannot understand.