1,074 Quotes About Stupidity

Why is it that crisis pushes me to my own devices when those devices are frequently the very things that produced my crisis in the first place?

I guess it really had been brave . . . because it was so bugger-all stupid, and if there was one thing I'd come to realize, ti was that bravery and bugger-all stupidity went hand in hand.

He took the Captain as he was, and was fond of him, with his cheery heartlessness, his incapacity to think beyond a couple of thoughts, for which his skull was far too roomy, his insignificant love affairs and childish infatuations, and the pointless and unconnected remarks that came out of his mouth, seemingly at random. He was a mediocre officer, who didn't care about his comrades, his men, his career.

Sometimes, I think how stupid I was yesterday. Then I look at people who still are, even today!

There's no point in arguing with an idiot - save for exposing their stupidity in their own words.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

If you can’t define something you have no formal rational way of knowing that it exists. Neither can you really tell anyone else what it is. There is, in fact, no formal difference between inability to define and stupidity.

People cry out against the sinner, yet it is not the sinful, but the stupid, who are our shame. There is no sin except stupidity.

Don’t ever be a stupid shadow who follows perfectly his leader no matter what foolishness his leader does!