45 Quotes About Stupidity That Are Full of Wisdom and Humor

1. "Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth." - Gustave Flaubert

2. "Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity." - Karl Albrecht

3. "Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity." - Frank Leahy

4. “Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.” - Oscar Wilde

5. "Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish." - Euripides

6. “Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.” - John Steinbeck

7. “The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

8. "Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance." - William Gaddis

9. "Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education." - Bertrand Russell

10. "Stupidity is a blockage in the ability to receive, integrate and transmit new signals." - Robert Anton Wilson

11. "The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops." - Peter Ustinov

12. "It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves." - Franz Kafka

13. "Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way." - Chris Lowe

14. "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity." - Robert A. Heinlein

15. "Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it." - Stephen Vizinczey

1. "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

2. "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience." - Mark Twain

3. "Stupidity makes you dangerous-to yourself and everyone around you." - Jennifer Lee Carrell

4. "Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change." - Confucius

5. "Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

6. “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.” - Harlan Ellison

7. "When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty." - George Bernard Shaw

8. "The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about." - Albert Einstein

9. "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." - Friedrich Nietzsche

8. "Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity." - Michel de Montaigne

9. "You can fix a lot of things, but you cannot fix stupidity." - Kenya Moore

10. "If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?" - Francis Parker Yockey

1. “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” - Albert Einstein

2. “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” - George Carlin

3. "We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." - Benjamin Franklin

4. "I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it." - Edith Sitwell

5. "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

6. "Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not." - Anatole France

7. "Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed." - Heraclitus

8. "Stupidity is a talent for misconception." - Edgar Allan Poe

9. "Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid." - John Wayne

10. "Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." - Terry Pratchett

11. "In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity." - Konrad Adenauer

12. "Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless." - Gustave Flaubert

13. "Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest." - Sam Levenson

14. “In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

15. "It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so." - Jerome K. Jerome

16. "Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it." - Pope John Paul II

17. "Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity." - Sammy Davis, Jr.

18. "No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity." - Jacques Yves Cousteau

19. "Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match." - Karl Kraus

20. "There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid." - John Fowles