Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karin Slaughter

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

Kim Harrison

I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison

Marcus Tullius Cicero

For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

Kevin Mitnick

You can't go to Windows Update and get a patch for stupidity.

Kevin Mitnick

There is no patch for stupidity.

Jaron Lanier

Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.

Horace Greeley

Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.

Ernest Hemingway

Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.

Christopher Hitchens

There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement of IQ.

George Jean Nathan

All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.

Christine Feehan

Don't cater to stupidity.

George Orwell

What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

George Orwell

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There's no defense against stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

Franz Grillparzer

Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.

Jean-Paul Sartre

One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

Georges Courteline

To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.

Jean Cocteau

Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.

Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads.

Michael Scott

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh,” Flamel said quietly. “And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer. Sophie,” he added, without looking at her.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Vik? You ready? (Devyn) Your stupidity is what I live for, Captain. (Vik)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Why are you helping me? (Fury) I don’t know. Apparently I’m having a moment of extreme stupidity. (Angelia)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m going. But before I do, let me congratulate all of you on your stupidity. (Fury)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Why would you help us? (Delphine) I hear stupidity is a fatal disease. Doing my own experimentation to see if that’s true or not. If I survive, we’ll know it’s not. If I die…well, it’ll suck. Bad. And I won’t be happy. (Asmodeus)

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

Nicolas Chamfort

Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.

Nora Roberts

If that isn't typical male stupidity! If something doesn't work, kick it or swear at it!

Ray Bradbury

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

Oscar Wilde

The greatest of all sins is stupidity.