Stupidity is an almost infinite source of maxims, aphorisms, jokes, but in certain situations it can only be a reason for nerves. An accident at work or a meeting with friends can give rise to good jokes or a reason to want to leave the planet with a one-way ticket. What is certain is that these quotes about stupidity are perfect in almost any situation.
Quotes about stupidity
Below you will find a list of some of the most popular quotes about stupidity.
1. When you see herds of fools, loneliness becomes bearable. – Petre Tutea
2. A smart man can also learn from a fool. The reverse is harder. – Francois Rabelais
3. Stupidity is not punishable by death. If that were the case, we would have a dramatic decline in population. – Laurell K. Hamilton
4. A fool does not say smart things but a smart man says a lot of nonsense. – Garabet Ibraileanu
5. When I say nonsense, everyone tolerates me, when I tell the truth, everyone hates me. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6. You are often silent because you are convinced of your opponent’s stupidity. – Nicolae Iorga
7. Fools complain that they are not known enough by many people, the wise complain that they do not know enough people. – Confucius
8. A learned fool is worse than an uneducated fool. – Moliere
9. Ecstasy is the uncut branch of humility in the face of stupidity. – Sorin Cerin
10. I have patience when it comes to stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it. – Edith Sitwell
11. I know I’m stupid. But when I look around, I take courage. – Ion Creanga
12. Our only enemy in the world is stupidity, darkness of mind. – Thomas Carlyle
13. Half the world is made up of idiots and the other half is smart enough to take advantage of them. – Walter Francis Kerr
14. Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity does not have this handicap. – Elbert Hubbard
15. Fools always marry, sometimes fools, never the wise. – Mihai Eminescu
16. There are no bad plants, no bad people, there are only stupid cultivators. – Victor Hugo
17. Nonsense is the nightmare of reason. – Costel Zagan
18. Nonsense: the science of vacuum! – Costel Zagan
Funny Quotes About
Stupidity The nature of stupidity is really funny. Read the following quotes about stupidity and choose the right sayings.
19. Do not laugh at fools, for they will think they are humorous. – Montesquieu
20. An intelligent man observes all the time, but a fool always makes observations. – Heinriche Heine
21. The two most common elements of the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. – Harlan Ellison
22. There are a lot of fools in this world and when a man in a fairly high position doesn’t give a damn, he pats them on the shoulder and tells them he’s ready to do anything for them, he has every chance to consider him clever. – William Somerset Maugham
23. The fool has a great advantage over the wise man: he is always pleased with himself.
24. Stupidity is not a handicap in politics. – Napoleon Bonaparte
25. Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating than intelligence. Intelligence has its limits, stupidity does not. – Umberto Eco
26. No one is smart enough to convince a fool that he is stupid. – La Fontaine
27. A fool always finds a fool to admire him. – Nicolas Boileau
28. Fools die, but stupidity is immortal. – IL Caragiale
29. I cry for fools and nonsense beats me. – Ana Blandiana
30. When a fool says he’s stupid, it’s a good sign, it means he wakes up. – Valeriu Butulescu
31. By making the fool literate, you give him unrestricted access to bad books, by reading, he will be able to spread his ignorance in an amazing way. – Valeriu Butulescu
32. You can only live badly, where stupidity leads.- Valeriu Butulescu
33. Only fools believe that great people can be taken out of history by demolishing their statues. – Valeriu Butulescu
34. The ignorant do not know, the fool found out, but he misunderstood. – Valeriu Butulescu
35. Imbecility, property of some brains not to be contaminated by any idea. – Valeriu Butulescu
36. When you’re stupid, you don’t have to be bad anymore. – Vasile Ghica
37. The memory of the fool is stored in the liver, in the form of a stone. – Vasile Ghica
38. I’m afraid of nonsense with aspirations. – Vasile Ghica
Famous quotes about stupidity
Stupidity has been around the world for a long time, so over time various phrases have appeared that capture its essence in poetic ways. Such quotes about stupidity can be found below.
39. The fool is not stupid enough, until he is foolish. (Romanian Proverb)
40. Laughing at the spirits is the privilege of fools, they have in this world the role of the pranksters in the court, that is, they are irresponsible people. – Jean de la Bruyere
41. Stupidity and wickedness are always accompanied. – Victor Duta
42. The fool with a good memory has many thoughts and deeds at his disposal, but he does not know how to draw any conclusions from them. – Luc de Clapiers
43. It’s no shame to be born stupid, it’s a shame to die stupid. – Marin Sorescu
44. You attack an opinion of a fool and you wake up with the whole fool in discussion. – Nicolae Iorga
45. Intimacy, a relationship in which nonsense is providentially attracted for their mutual destruction. – Ambrose Bierce
46. The foolish build up the world, and the foolish build it up. – Emil Cioran
47. Stupidity includes a dose of seriousness that, better managed, could increase the number of masterpieces. – Emil Cioran
48. Stupidity tends to reach its peak in an age when science makes desperate efforts to prove otherwise. – Mariana Fulger
49. There are no fools more harmful than those who have a spirit. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Short Quotes About
Stupidity Some short quotes that show that stupidity can be found everywhere.
50. Stupidity is the aberration that has received an emotional consecration. – Gabriel Liiceanu
51. Prejudices are the reason for fools. – Voltaire
52. If it weren’t for nonsense, the smart would starve to death. – Camil Petrescu
53. Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I am very sure of the latter. – Albert Einstein.
54. Stupidity has no borders: wherever one feels at home! – Costel Zagan
55. Stupidity recognizes one feeling and that is fear. – Marius Torok
56. It is said that happy people say a lot of nonsense, while the serious ones are less, but bigger. – Tudor Octavian
57. The ladder of stupidity passes through all heads; her eyes drop. – Max L. Blecher
58. We all pay tribute to stupidity, only some more than others. – Marius Torok
59. The best compliment you can give to stupidity is to step aside so that everyone can see it. – Marius Torok
60. Foolishness, when he looks in the mirror, says to himself: How smart I am! – Radu Herjeu
61. When you are in a bad mood, you suddenly become objective, you see things and people in their true light, that is, you see insufficient the shadows of the world, hovering in your own penumbra. – Andrei Plesu
Sayings about stupidity
The most beautiful sayings about stupidity.
62. A common mistake that people make when trying to project something 100% antiprostic is to underestimate the inventiveness of the real lunatics. – Douglas Adams
63. It’s very dangerous to be honest when you’re not stupid. – George Bernard Shaw
64. The smaller the mind, the bigger the arrogance. – Aesop
65. Stupidity has the horror of anonymity. – Vasile Ghica
66. Stupidity could only contribute to the progress of society if it becomes taxable. – Vasile Ghica
67. They are extremely complex nonsense, which only the wise can commit. – Valeriu Butulescu
68. Stupidity is less dense than intelligence, that’s why it’s always on top. – Valeriu Butulescu
69. Treat this foolishness with indulgence, it was committed in the name of a lofty ideal. – Valeriu Butulescu
70. The fool who begins to doubt his perfection becomes nice. – Valeriu Butulescu
71. The whole darkness of history bears the signature of stupidity. – Vasile Ghica
72. In her immeasurable tenderness, stupidity will not let any comedian die of starvation. – Vasile Ghica
73. In the hand of the fool, the pencil becomes a machine gun. – Vasile Ghica
74. The baldness of stupidity can be seen whenever he tries to be spiritual. – Vasile Ghica
75. Without a vocation, the fool remains an idiot. – Vasile Ghica
76. He is a real fool, not one of those who gives you the chance to be wrong. – Vasile Ghica
77. It is foolish to spare what you do not know for whom you keep. – Publius Syrus
78. In the case of the fool, silence takes the place of wisdom. – Publius Syrus
79. If stupidity should cause suffering, there are people who should walk the streets screaming in pain. – Mihail Sadoveanu
80. Stupidity, like the smell of ferrets, can easily become a weapon. – Valeriu Butulescu
81. There is no point in sifting through the nonsense, in the sieve or under the sieve, it will still be heard. – Valeriu Butulescu
82. To do the fool at the right time is the greatest wisdom. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
83. There is no greater sin than stupidity. – Oscar Wilde
84. There are two kinds of idiots: those who give up doing something because they have received a threat and those who believe something because they are threatening. – Paulo Coelho
Quotes about
stupidity Read the following quotes about stupidity about foreign authors, but also about Romanians.
85. Don’t think you’re a fool of the village, it’s not modest. – Valeriu Butulescu
86. Stupidity is eternal and invincible. – Alexandru Paleologu
87. Stupidity is a painless suffering of intelligence. – Emil Cioran
88. You can’t fool a cat just like you can fool a dog. – Jerome Klapka Jerome
89. The worst fool is the fool altered by philosophy. – Lucian Blaga
90. Only stupidity can have no intermittents. – Grigore Moisil
91. The stricter the rule, the worse the head that conceived it. – Jean de la Bruyere
92. The fool is not the one who does not understand some things, how many, but the one who understands them all upside down. Nicolae Iorga
93. Any fool can know, the goal is to understand. – Albert Einstein
94. A fool who does not say a word is no different from a silent scientist. – Moliere
95. A certain amount of stupidity is necessary to be a good soldier. – Florence Nightingale
96. To be successful it is not enough to be stupid, you must have good manners. – Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
97. Being stupid, selfish and in good health are three requirements to be happy, although if stupidity is lacking the others do not matter. – Gustave Flaubert
98. If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid
people suddenly become smart while asking questions
– Scott Adams
Deep quotes about stupidity
Read the deepest quotes about stupidity.
99. It turned out that a fool can only lead intelligent people. Vasile Ghica
100. The fool does not enter your soul with the plow, but with the bulldozer. Vasile Ghica
101. Life is hard. It’s even harder if you’re stupid. – John Wayne
102. Man can fight evil, but he is helpless against stupidity. – Henry Miller
103. Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a paradise, but one idiot is enough to turn it into Hell. – Raheel Farooq
104. There are only two ways to happiness in life: extraordinary stupidity or huge wealth. – Ziad K. Abdelnour
105. I can’t stand when people say “follow your heart.” This is not a good enough moral reason to pursue someone. – Karl Kristian Flores
106. When I want to remember stupidity, especially mine, I turn on the TV. – Dejan Stojanovic
107. For the rebelliousness of the foolish kills them, and the silence of the foolish loses them
. – Henri-Frederic Amiel
109. Fools learn more from fools than from fools. – Cato cel Batran
110. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, and the heart of the foolish is in the house of the party. – Bible, Ecclesiastes 7: 4
111. The thief met the fool. (Romanian saying)
112. That you are stupid, that you are smart – you pay for your stupidity! – Nicolae Mares
113. To protect your head from cold and stupidity. – Mother Teresa
114. If I am a fool, at least I am one who doubts and I do not envy anyone for the certainty of his approved dance wisdom. – George Gordon Byron
We hope you enjoyed this list of quotes about stupidity. Each person may feel that he is surrounded only by stupidity, but it is only possible that the other will not be understood. Whatever the case, these quotes can make you think of the nature of a man who never changes or laugh at moments that are really stupid.
In the end, one thing is certain: you can be born bad, but it is tragic to die badly. Read, learn and choose the quotes about stupidity that you think are appropriate. A day without reading or finding out something new is a lost day, and we humans have no time to lose.
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