Quotes by Stupidity To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds? George Eliot unendurablestupiditysocial If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it. George Eliot stupidityopinionair We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves George Eliot stupidityselfworld Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain. George Orwell difficultstupidity There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been, and will be better than he. George Santayana stupidityjoymen I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in. Gerald R. Ford watergatestupiditybreak There is no dunce like a mature dunce. George Santayana duncesstupiditymature It is of first-rate importance to notice from the start that stupidity is not the same thing, or the same sort of thing, as ignorance. There is no incompatibility between being well-informed and being silly, and a person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts. Gilbert Ryle stupidityignorancesilly Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water. Gilbert Highet stupiditywindwater I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools. Giacomo Casanova foolhoneststupidity A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it. Gilles Deleuze tyrantsstupidityfirsts The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life. Giordano Bruno stupiditylawworld I cannot abide stupidity, in myself or in others. Ginger Rogers stupidity There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal. George Santayana meannessidealsstupidity Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing. Glen Duncan stupiditypainideas I believe that the BBC, in spite of the stupidity of its foreign propaganda and the unbearable voices of its announcers, is very truthful. It is generally regarded here as more reliable than the press. George Orwell stupidityvoicebelieve It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon. George Eliot pigeonsstupidityclever 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 cowardiceinstinctstupidity There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public. Gore Vidal maintainingstupiditypeople They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it. Gracie Allen arcsbuiltstupidity«1011121314151617181920»
