Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!

Was he, after all, really a bad man doing a brilliant impersonation of an idiot? It was hard to tell. The connections between stupidity and malice were so tangled and so dense.

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

The problem is not that people make any bond of affection they like with people they like; the problem is calling that bond of affection “love.

Allan Emmanuelle Karlsson closed his eyes and felt perfectly convinced that he would now pass away for ever. It had been exciting, the entire journey, but nothing lasts for ever, except possibly general stupidity.

One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.

When you are in the company of lunatics, behave like a lunatic. When you are in the company of intelligentsias, speak with brilliance…that is how a chameleon behaves, the territory changes it, and it adapts...

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity, especially when it comes to bureaucrats in a government who has no clueabout money matters

How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been forced to vegetate in his primitive stupidity: he has been...

If you can count to two, you can count to anything!

The difference between a drunkard and a madman is 10%.

Destruction is easily reversed, Brain drainage howbeit is a civilization killer

I told him his motivations were irrelevant, his actions were stupid, and this operation can’t afford that kind of stupidity.

You can’t stay here any more. My fears have been irrational and they’ve forced me to make unwise decisions and accept the unacceptable.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Teach you a lesson in stupidity.Why’d you come over here? You expected a bloody hug? Huh? A nice sit-down to talk about the goodtimes in the Glade?

Între eroare și prostie se poate observa un soi de înrudire și chiar o complicitate secretă pe care nimic, de-a lungul timpului, n-a izbutit s-o înlăture.

A decision made during a moment of weakness can ruin your life. To date, I had made three.

I just don’t want to make them look stupid,

I was stupid, mad and dead, but the Lord Jesus saved me from my stupidity.

Men are pigs, darling. I really have every sympathy for women that they actually have to choose one of these arrogant, stupid morons to settle down with and marry.

What he found impossible was to shut off his brain, to detach himself from the intriguing problems with which (he) was involved, or to leave alone the major problems of war and peace, race and...

I had stood and stared at the webbing of steel then wished for a hole to climb through. The wires had just unraveled without setting off the klaxon. I remembered thinking with a horrible kind...

That such a slave as this should wear a sword,Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwainWhich are too intrinse t’ unloose; smooth every passionThat in the...

People who label erotica writers as sluts/men-whores remind me of the mob that once condemned smart women as witches. Mankind has not evolved much.

Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.

Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.

Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.

If you have the power to hit people over the head whenever you want, you don’t have to trouble yourself too much figuring out what they think is going on, and therefore, generally speaking, you...

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice...

I am not the sharpest knife in the knife-thing.

Calling the cat stupid never made the mice wise.

Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it.

Only a man could come up with something so ruthless, so essentially stupid and yet brutally effective.

Well, let’s see. There’s—of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there’s never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v....

And I am nothing if not a stupid, stupid man.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

It’s better to shut up and give the impression that you’re stupid than to say something and erase all doubt.

For 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...

If you are stupid enough to cheat, then definitely dumb enough to get caught.

…it’s just another one of those things I don’t understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish you and everyone...

You’re going to keep making these mistakes as long as you keep carrying your brain in the same scabbard with your sword, Lelldorin.

Halved. That was every time. My laughter was for idiots, for their unjustifiable idiocy and for myself for an unrelenting conviction to them, for that unforgivable instance I leveled myself to them. At that awkward...

Silly,’ he said with mock serenity, ‘isn’t a word you should ever apply to people. They may be totally stupid, in fact, but if you call them silly you’ve lost their vote.

We have written too many books about love and so few about hunger and poverty; that is why we need to wake up and leave stupidity behind.

She doesn’t understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don’t have enough years in their little lives to come to an understanding of anything at all. And yet they think they understand. From earliest childhood, they delude...