Stupidity Quotes
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“One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn鈥檛 understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid. He was renowned for being amazingly clever and quite clearly was so鈥攂ut not all the time, which obviously worried him, hence, the act. He preferred people to be puzzled rather than contemptuous.”
― The Hitchhiker鈥檚 Guide to the Galaxy
― The Hitchhiker鈥檚 Guide to the Galaxy

“He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”
― In the Hand of the Goddess
― In the Hand of the Goddess

“Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.”
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“And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina

“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. ”
― An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
― An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

“In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.”
― The Marriage Plot
― The Marriage Plot

“Don鈥檛 do anything stupid."
"Don鈥檛 worry," I whispered over the line, "I鈥檓 an expert on stupid."
"驰辞耻鈥檙别..."
"Like, I can spot stupidity, because I know it so well. The way an exterminator knows bugs really well, and can spot where they鈥檝e been? I鈥檓 like that. A stupidinator."
"Never say that word again," Prof said.”
― Firefight
"Don鈥檛 worry," I whispered over the line, "I鈥檓 an expert on stupid."
"驰辞耻鈥檙别..."
"Like, I can spot stupidity, because I know it so well. The way an exterminator knows bugs really well, and can spot where they鈥檝e been? I鈥檓 like that. A stupidinator."
"Never say that word again," Prof said.”
― Firefight

“Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.”
― The Curse of Chalion
― The Curse of Chalion

“You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.”
― Round the Bend
― Round the Bend

“A deceitful man will go as far as to trample all over a woman鈥檚 reputation and spirit, in order to prove to his ex-love that he was faithful. The irony, is he is still in love with his ex and the new woman in his life doesn鈥檛 even realize it.”
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“And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?”
― Ender's Shadow
― Ender's Shadow

“You're just another american who is willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick being shoved up your asshole every day... The owners of this country know the truth... it's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it!”
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“I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And when a girl comes along who has about twice the regular allowance, she too often makes a bee line for me with the love light in her eyes. I don't know how to account for it, but it is so."
"It may be Nature's provision for maintaining the balance of the species, sir.”
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"It may be Nature's provision for maintaining the balance of the species, sir.”
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“You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all.He'd probably say he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief

“People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.”
― Lexicon
― Lexicon

“She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.”
― Luminarium
― Luminarium

“Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of virtue has not been outlived even today. A kind of sturdy peasant simplicity, which, however, is possible in all classes and can be encountered only with respect and a smile, believes even today that everything is in good hands, namely in the "hands of God"; and when it maintains this proportion with the same modest certainty as it would that two and two make four, we others certainly refrain from contradicting. Why disturb THIS pure foolishness? Why darken it with our worries about man, people, goal, future? And even if we wanted to do it, we could not. They project their own honorable stupidity and goodness into the heart of things (the old God, deus myops, still lives among them!); we others 鈥 we read something else into the heart of things: our own enigmatic nature, our contradictions, our deeper, more painful, more mistrustful wisdom.”
― The Will to Power
― The Will to Power

“This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the 鈥渙ver鈥 and just think, then we could do, too. Only we鈥檇 be smarter doers because we鈥檇 be thinkers.”
― Smart Girls Get What They Want
― Smart Girls Get What They Want

“Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts to tear it, and cannot tear it, is he in his right mind to say "This silk is fake! I thought it was soft, I thought it was delicate, but look, I cannot even tear it" ? Surely, this man is not in his right mind! The silk is not fake! This silk is 100% real. It's the man who is stupid!”
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“Ignorance and stupidity are the most dangerous viruses that jeopardize our living together. Calamity cannot be prevented nor cured, simply as a result of unawareness. (鈥淗igh noon")”
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“CUSTOMER: I don鈥檛 know why she wants it, but my wife asked for a copy of The Dinosaur Cookbook.
BOOKSELLER: The Dinah Shore Cookbook?”
― Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
BOOKSELLER: The Dinah Shore Cookbook?”
― Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
“I think he just loved being with the bears because they didn't make him feel bad. I get it too. When he was with the bears, they didn't care that he was kind of weird, or that he'd gotten into trouble for drinking too much and using drugs(which apparently he did a lot of). They didn't ask him a bunch of stupid questions about how he felt, or why he did what he did. They just let him be who he was.”
― Suicide Notes
― Suicide Notes

“How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.”
― The Courts of Love
― The Courts of Love

“Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.”
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“Well, speaking as a feminist, I'm glad that women can lead--uh, groups of unspeakable magical evil."
"Yes," Alan said gravely. "It'd be shoking if the evil magicians were sexist. For one thing, that would mean they were stupid, and having stupid enemies would be a terrible blow to my manly pride.”
― The Demon's Covenant
"Yes," Alan said gravely. "It'd be shoking if the evil magicians were sexist. For one thing, that would mean they were stupid, and having stupid enemies would be a terrible blow to my manly pride.”
― The Demon's Covenant

“And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.”
― The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
― The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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