Stupidity Quotes

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

I can’t remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.

There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

Life just doesn’t care about our aspirations, or sadness. It’s often random, and it’s often stupid and it’s often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.