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“The common curse of mankind, folly, ignorance and stupidity.”

Common Mankind Ignorance Stupidity Curse Folly

Author:William C. Brown

“To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.”

Mankind Events Ought Ordinary Madness Philosopher Stupidity Historian Wickedness Imbeciles

Author:David Hume

“Who will argue that 98.6 Farenheit is the right temperature for man? As for me, I decline to do it. It may be that we are all actually freezing hence the pervading stupidity of mankind. At 110 or 115 degrees even archbishops might be intelligent.”

Men May Might Belief Mankind Degrees Intelligent Stupidity Arguing Decline Superstitions Temperature Freezing

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.”

Mankind Stupid Weakness Doctors Stupidity Lawyer Silly Pessimism Tranquility Theologian Wickedness Weakness Of Man

Book:Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays

Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays

“Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done so. He'd decided that it was because, imprisoned in the priceless, inquiring amber of Leonard's massive mind, underneath that bright investigative genius was a kind of willful innocence that might in lesser men be called stupidity. It was the seat and soul of that force which, down the millennia, had caused mankind to stick its fingers in the electric light socket of the Universe and play with the switch to see what happened - and then be very surprised when it did.”

“Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know that the earth is not flat but my feet are. I know that space is curved but my brain has been condoned by habit to grow in a straight line. What I call light is my own blend of darkness. What I call a view is my hand-painted trompe-l'oeil. I run after knowledge like a ferret down a ferret hole. My limitations, I call the boundaries of what can be known. I interpret the world by confusing other people's psychology with my own.”