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.
Carroll O'ConnorDiscipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.
Rabindranath TagoreEach 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.
Oscar WildeTo 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.
BuddhaMen are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand RussellBefore God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert EinsteinSociety is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
Emile M. CioranNever underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Robert A. HeinleinThe trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand RussellStupidity has a knack of getting its way.
Albert CamusCan 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?
Blaise PascalSurprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane AustenAnything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
VoltaireTravel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Thomas FullerLife is hard, it's harder if you're stupid.
John WayneIt is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard ShawIt is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Mark TwainTo be stupid, selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking all is lost.
Gustave FlaubertGenius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert HubbardA fool thinks himself to be wise but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William ShakespeareA word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill CosbyThere is nothing so stupid as the educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Will RogersIf Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
Will RogersMoney demands that you sell not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
Ayn RandAlthough it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
John Stuart MillThere is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
AristotleThere is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
Frank ZappaI hate war, as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality its futility its stupidity.
Dwight D. EisenhowerIn politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon BonaparteAn intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Victor HugoSome fellows get credit for being conservative, when they are only stupid.
Kin HubbardEducation n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose BierceInsanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert EinsteinBetter a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William ShakespeareDespair is the conclusion of fools.
Benjamin DisraeliA man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
Joseph AddisonBooks are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
ChanakyaSin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
Alfred Lord TennysonHere is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity, the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
Gustave FlaubertAny girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Hedy LamarrLife is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
John WayneIf 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.
Oscar WildeHow do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?
Lou HoltzI 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.
Katharine HepburnA learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin FranklinTo forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Friedrich NietzscheIt is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark TwainStupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
Friedrich NietzscheThe fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Thomas FullerAny fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
Benjamin FranklinThink 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.
BuddhaLife'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.
William ShakespeareIf you want to improve be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
EpictetusStupidity talks vanity acts.
Victor HugoEarnestness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'RourkeThink of how stupid the average person is and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George CarlinIt is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.
ConfuciusStupidity is a talent for misconception.
Edgar Allan PoeThe discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
John SteinbeckIn the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
Simone de BeauvoirJust think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!
George CarlinWe 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.
Stephen HawkingIt'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.
EminemWhen a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard ShawDo not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
Ayn RandI'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?
EminemThe trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
Mark TwainTricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Benjamin FranklinAnger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert EinsteinWhen we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
William ShakespeareErudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Ambrose BierceIt is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Mark TwainSeriousness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'RourkeStupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
Pope John Paul IIThere are some frauds so well conducted, that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
Charles Caleb ColtonJudgments 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.
Friedrich NietzscheSuppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress, but I repeat myself.
Mark TwainWhen all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.
Theodor W. AdornoOnly the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
ConfuciusSeriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Oscar WildeI 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.
David Herbert LawrenceNietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
Leo TolstoyI 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?
Charlie Sheen