Stupidity Quotes
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“For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols”
― Complete Essays, Vol. I: 1920-1925
― Complete Essays, Vol. I: 1920-1925

“I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.”
― Ender's Shadow
― Ender's Shadow

“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been discredited, the world will not pass into the hands of credulous herbivores who keep crystals by their sides and swoon over the poems of Khalil Gibran. The 'vacuum' will be invaded instead by determined fundamentalists of every stripe who already know the truth by means of revelation and who actually seek real and serious power in the here and now. One thinks of the painstaking, cloud-dispelling labor of British scientists from Isaac Newton to Joseph Priestley to Charles Darwin to Ernest Rutherford to Alan Turing and Francis Crick, much of it built upon the shoulders of Galileo and Copernicus, only to see it casually slandered by a moral and intellectual weakling from the usurping House of Hanover. An awful embarrassment awaits the British if they do not declare for a republic based on verifiable laws and principles, both political and scientific.”
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“And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind

“Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?”
― She
― She

“Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers.”
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“The only people that can't handle the truth are those that suffer so much anxiety that they will live in denial, in order to prevent their illusion from being destroyed and feeling more anxiety.”
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“For someone who's smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.”
― One False Note
― One False Note

“The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. 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
“Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I鈥檓 not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What鈥檚 done is done; I have to look ahead.”
― Maya's Notebook
― Maya's Notebook

“Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex.”
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“If you have the power to hit people over the head whenever you want, you don鈥檛 have to trouble yourself too much figuring out what they think is going on, and therefore, generally speaking, you don鈥檛. Hence the sure-fire way to simplify social arrangements, to ignore the incredibly complex play of perspectives, passions, insights, desires, and mutual understandings that human life is really made of, is to make a rule and threaten to attack anyone who breaks it. This is why violence has always been the favored recourse of the stupid: it is the one form of stupidity to which it is almost impossible to come up with an intelligent response. It is also of course the basis of the state.”
― Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
― Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

“If you call yourself an "authoress" on your Facebook profile, you suck at life. You are stupid and your children are ugly. It doesn't matter if you're just trying to be cute and original. You're not. You are about as original as all those other witless twits "writing" the one millionth shitty Fifty Shades clone. Or maybe you're trying to show your 2000 fake Facebook "friends" that you are an empowered feminist who will not stand for sexist terminology. But you're not showing people that you are fighting the good fight, you're showing people that you are a sheep, who's trying just a little too hard to ride the current wave of idiotic political correctness. The word "author" is no more gender-discrimination than the word "person." Do you call yourself a personess? No, of course not, because then you might as well wear a sign around your neck that says, "Hello, I'm a retard.”
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“A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.”
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“I鈥檓 different,鈥 said the Kid. 鈥淢y gran always said I was half clever, half stupid, and half crazy.”
― The Enemy
― The Enemy

“First, however, I must deal with the matter of Jesus, the so-called savior, who not long ago taught new doctrines and was thought to be a son of God. This savior, I shall attempt to show, deceived many and caused them to accept a form of belief harmful to the well-being of mankind. Taking its root in the lower classes, the religion continues to spread among the vulgar: nay, one can even say it spreads because of its vulgarity and the illiteracy of its adherents. And while there are a few moderate, reasonable, and intelligent people who interpret its beliefs allegorically, yet it thrives in its purer form among the ignorant.”
― On the True Doctrine: A Discourse Against the Christians
― On the True Doctrine: A Discourse Against the Christians

“To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparable of vices is to do evil from stupidity.”
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“It's the wrong way. She's farther away from the door now. It occurs to me that some people only have book smarts.”
― Anna Dressed in Blood
― Anna Dressed in Blood

“Cieszy mi臋 ten rym: 鈥濸olak m膮dr po szkodzie鈥;
Lecz je艣li prawda i z tego nas zbodzie,
Now膮 przypowie艣膰 Polak sobie kupi,
呕e i przed szkod膮, i po szkodzie g艂upi.”
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Lecz je艣li prawda i z tego nas zbodzie,
Now膮 przypowie艣膰 Polak sobie kupi,
呕e i przed szkod膮, i po szkodzie g艂upi.”
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“Dramatic uprising of stupidity can start from nowhere and only be seen when it reaches it's climax.”
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