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QUOTES including the word: "stupid"

Bertrand Russell:
  • The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

    • Ibsen:
  • I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over

    • Nikolai Gogol:
  • “However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.”

    • Napoleon:
  • In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

    • Gauguin:
  • We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

    • Carl Jung:
  • I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

    • Flaubert:
  • To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

    • Alexandre Dumas:
  • How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

    • Maxim Gorky:
  • When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

    • Victor Hugo:
  • An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

    • Pessoa:
  • No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

    • Bertrand Russell:
  • “Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

    • Maxim Gorky:
  • A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

    • Flaubert:
  • Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

    • Nabokov:
  • My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

    • Pascal:
  • I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

    • Paul Valery:
  • Love is being stupid together.

    • L. Martin King,:
  • Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

    • Hawking:
  • We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

    • Benjamin Franklin:
  • We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

    • Balzac:
  • Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

    • Einstein:
  • Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; I'm not sure about the universe.

    • Schiller:
  • Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

    • Jack London:
  • Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.

    • Confucius:
  • It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.

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