Stupidity

• A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. — Bertrand Russell

• At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols. — Aldous Huxley

• Being stupid is its own reward — Unknown

• Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. — Edwin Land

• Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. — Elbert Hubbard

• I will not teach a man who is not anxious to learn, and will not explain to one who is not trying to make things clear to himself. — Confucius

• If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? — Will Rogers

• In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity. — Konrad Adenauer

• It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful — Anton LaVey

• Most fools think they are only ignorant. — Benjamin Franklin

• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. — Albert Einstein

• Stupidity is its own punishment — Unknown

• The American people are very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity. — Will Rogers

• The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. — Albert Einstein

• The dumbest people I know are those who know it all. — Malcolm Forbes

• The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. — Brian Pickrell

• There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. — Frank Zappa

• 'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. - Mark Twain

• With the whole world full of fools, there is none who thinks himself one, or even suspects it.

• The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. -Herbert Spencer

• Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. -Frank Dane

• There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. -Charles Caleb Colton

• A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. -Unknown

• A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself; indeed, he progresses in all things by making a fool of himself. -George Bernard Shaw

• Never give advice - a wise man won't need it, a fool won't heed it.

• Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. -Euripides

• Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. -Henry David Thoreau

• The law is a rule to the fool, but a guide to the wise.

• A person is smart; People are dumb, panicky, stupid animals. -Tommy Lee Jones (Men in Black)

• Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. -"Hanlon's Razor"; variations variously attributed to Goethe, Napoleon Bonaparte, William James, Robert Heinlein, and the possibly apocryphal Robert J. Hanlon.