1,074 Quotes About Stupidity

Foolish people laugh at things they do not understand, producing the sound of braying donkeys.

There comes a point in some conversations where I simply quit and let reality do my talking for me.

The attempt [by the far-left] to boil down fascism to 'anything I don't like' is simply idiotic. Which is more fascist: Christina Hoff Sommers coming to speak about the lies of the feminist movement, or the people who are suggesting that they should actually be able to shut down her lecture by use of force?That seems a little more fascist to me.

You know what man really desires?" inquired the doctor, grinning into the immobile face of the Baron. "One of two things: to find someone who is so stupid that he can lie to her, or to love someone so much that she can lie to him.

Well becuase there are certain things that I believe make it worth my while to be awake

Solemnity and stupidity are the same thing.

Stupidity is not at all lack of intelligence, it is the willingness of repeating the actions which crosses the boundaries of common sense. We all misplace our common sense at some point in life, but the champions of the act never realize that the sense which is uncommon should not be carried along all the time.

Socrates's daimon (the one who spoke first within him ) whispered to him: no. My daimon, on the contrary, is my stupidity: like the Nietzschean ass, I say yes to everything, in the field of my love.

It is one of life’s greatest mysteries, when the dumb unite to do something good against their will.