Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Stupidity is something unshakable, nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it, it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

To be idle is a short road to death, and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

The skillful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Life is hard, it's harder if you're stupid.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

To be stupid, selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking all is lost.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

A fool thinks himself to be wise but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

Money demands that you sell not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

When you work, you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

There is no sin except stupidity.

To be clever enough to get all that money one must be stupid enough to want it.

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity, and the brute by instinct.

I hate war, as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality its futility its stupidity.

Only the shallow know themselves.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Some fellows get credit for being conservative, when they are only stupid.

Education n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

A fool despises good counsel but a wise man takes it to heart.

I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6 000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

We are all born ignorant but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity, the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?

Boldness is a child of ignorance

I have many regrets and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do you regret... if you have any sense and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

Think not lightly of evil, saying 'It will not come to me.' Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the fool gathering it little by little, fills himself with evil.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

If you want to improve be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Stupidity talks vanity acts.

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Think of how stupid the average person is and realize half of them are stupider than that.

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

I sometimes try to be miserable that I may do more work, but find it is a foolish experiment.

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

There are some frauds so well conducted, that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

Judgments value, judgments concerning life, for or against can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress, but I repeat myself.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid but most stupid people are conservatives.

People get a kick out of my stupidity.

In the first place God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way and they are so stupid never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity, and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives, and then they look at me and they say 'I can't process it', well no you never will stop trying just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?