Friday 5 July 2013

Stupidity - Quotes

A stupid man – the most dangerous animal of all. - Ariana Franklin

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. - Bertrand Russell

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. - John Steinbeck

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it. - Stephen Vizinczey

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way. - Chris Lowe

Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid. - Dan Simmons

Stupidity is a factor to be reckoned with in human affairs. The true leader always expects to encounter it, and prepares to endure it patiently so long as it is normal stupidity. He knows that his ideas will be distorted, his orders carelessly executed; and that there will be jealousy among his assistants. He takes these inevitable phenomena into account, and instead of attempting to find men without faults, who are non-existent, he tries to make use of the best men at his disposal – as they are, and not as they ought to be. - Andres Maurois

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. - Margaret Atwood

Stupidity makes you dangerous – to yourself and everyone around you. - Jennifer Lee Carrell

The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. - C. S. Lewis

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. - Oscar Wilde

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