Stupidity Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

32 Stupidity Quotes
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“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“There is no sin except stupidity.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful.”
Anton LaVey Quotes
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.”
Albert Einstein Quotes
“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”
Voltaire Quotes
“Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.”
Albert Camus Quotes
“Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!”
George Carlin Quotes
“The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.”
Harlan Ellison Quotes
“The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others”
Tibetan Proverb Quotes
“We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.”
Joseph Addison Quotes
Source: The Drummer (act IV, sc. 6)
“Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.”
Joseph Addison Quotes
Source: The Drummer (act IV, sc. 6)
“Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.”
Joseph Addison Quotes
Source: The Drummer (act IV, sc. 6)
“With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.”
Charles Churchill Quotes
Source: The Rosciad (l. 591)
“I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.”
William Congreve Quotes
Source: Old Bachelor (act II, 2)
“The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.”
John Dryden Quotes
Source: Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 107)
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”
John Dryden Quotes
Source: Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 107)
“There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe.”
John Dryden Quotes
Source: Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 107)
“The fault rests with the gods, who have made her so stupid. [Lat., La faute en est aux dieux, qui la firent si bete.]”
Jean B.L. de Gresset Quotes
Source: Mechant (II, 7)
“He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
“Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson, of R.B. Sheridan
“The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to exclaim, "Est il possible?"--"Is it possible?"”
Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes
Source: History of England (vol. I, ch. IX)
“I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes
Source: History of England (vol. I, ch. IX)
“The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.”
Alexander Pope Quotes
Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 612)
“If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"”
Alexander Pope Quotes
Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 612)
“Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. [Ger., Mit der Dummheit kampfen Gotter selbst vergebens.]”
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Quotes
Source: Maid of Orleans (act III, sc. 6)