S Quotes
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“Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.”
“Stupidity has made enormous progress. It's a sun so shining that we can no longer look at it directly. Thanks to communication media, it's no longer the same, it's nourished by other myths, it sells extremely well, it has ridiculed good sense and it's spreading its terrifying power.”
“Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.”
“Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“Stupidity is a blockage in the ability to receive, integrate and transmit new signals.”
“Stupidity is a charm that leaves its master slowly... if it leaves at all.”
“Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.”
“Stupidity is a factor to be reckoned with in human affairs. The true leader always expects to encounter it, and prepares to endure it patiently so long as it is normal stupidity. He knows that his ideas will be distorted, his orders carelessly executed; and that there will be jealousy among his assistants. He takes these inevitable phenomena into account, and instead of attempting to find men without faults, who are non-existent, he tries to make use of the best men at his disposal - as they are, and not as they ought to be.”
“Stupidity is a luxury and you will find time and time and time and again that those who are overwhelmingly on the left are those who can afford to be.”
“Stupidity is a manifestation, not the cause.”
“Stupidity is a mindset of those who refuse knowledge! A mistake of judgment is an error, we make mistakes all of the time, it's stupid if you keep making the same mistakes often.”
“Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.”
“Stupidity is a pretence to know unkowns, where as learning is a solution”
“Stupidity is a talent for misconception.”
“Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.”
Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses
“Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.”
“Stupidity is always a capital crime.”
“Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.”
“Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.”
“Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.”
“Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.”
“Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“Stupidity is doomed,
therefore, to cringe
at every syllable
of wisdom.”
Source: Fragments
“Stupidity is falling pray to your own illusions.”
“Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.”
“Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.”
“Stupidity is intensified by things such as arrogance and confidence.”
“Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God’s blessings.”
“Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation over and see if there’s a doorway somewhere. I think most people eventually do look for the doorway and stop bumping into the wall”
“Stupidity is most often concealed by education, fame, adulthood, beauty, affluence, popularity, sexiness, old age, authority, and a suit.”
“Stupidity is much the same all the world over”
Source: On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays
“Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties.”
Source: Essays on Sex Equality
“Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.”
“Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.”
“Stupidity is not a crime.”
“Stupidity is not another form of knowledge.”
“Stupidity is not another way of knowing things.”
Source: The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass
“Stupidity is not my forté however, there is immense entertainment value in playing the dumb blonde...”
“Stupidity is not my strong suit.”
“Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous”
“Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.”
“Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.”
“Stupidity is sufficient unto itself. Wisdom can never learn enough.”
“Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.”
Source: Real Frank Zappa Book
“Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.”
“Stupidity is the gossipers merge plate, whipped lashes will bruise his back till he turn shade ashes”
“Stupidity is the only natural capital offense.”
“Stupidity is the regurgitated meal that feeds itself and on which it grows fat.”
“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”
Source: Surfacing
“Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.”