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The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
Sep 24, 2025
It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness.
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.
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
In the end, this world will go under because of the stupidity of people.
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.
Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.
The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people who feel certain about things they never try to find out. A world that educates people to be ignorant - that is what this world of ours is.
I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid
I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
My disciples are vegetarian not as a cult, not as a creed. They are vegetarians because their meditations make them more human, more of the heart, and they can see the whole stupidity of people killing living beings for their food. It is their sensitivity, their aesthetic awareness that makes them vegetarians.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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.
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