Why are free spirits always so fucking dumb?

I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

Stupidity isn’t punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.

We’re not stupid! We’re just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

Irony is wasted on the stupid

Oliver has stated many times his dislike of hearing advice from his younger sister, so it is his own fault if he has not got sense enough to see which way the wind is blowing.

Progresele culturale, care sunt evidente şi se extind la categorii sociale în mod tradiţional excluse, pot continua. Dar ăn acelaşi timp există mai multă prostie. Faptul că ţăranii de odinioară tăceau nu însemna că erau...

Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.

I was that stupid, I realized. I was also stupid enough not to realize that sometimes even the most beautiful souls need to be shown love once in a while.

…It was borne in upon her audience that the outside of Jane’s charming head was distinctly superior to the inside.

And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.

Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any subtlety of thought or expression. A man for his time, indeed.

Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of virtue has not been outlived even today. A kind of sturdy...

What a queer gamble our existence is. We decide to do A instead of B and then the two roads diverge utterly and may lead in the end to heaven and to hell. Only later...

I think we have underestimated their Gods; they have made millions stupid, and we are even not able to get one out of that stupidity.

When you’re surrounded by stupidity, self-preservation isn’t a sin.

Hiram!’ Shelton ran to Hi’s side. ‘Aren’t you you bleeding? I thought she shot you!”Red wine. When I saw it running everywhere, I played dead.’ He winced as Shelton poked his belly. ‘But I’m not...

In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows.

over” and just think, then we could do, too. Only we’d be smarter doers because we’d be thinkers.

Genuinity is mother of stupidity.

There is a fine line between bravery and stupidity.

Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was.Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

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

Angelo was a grown man, and here was one thing he was quite free to decide for himself, and yet he was ready to let others make up his mind for him…that could only be...

I am a scholar of stupidity, so thanks for existing.

My gran always said I was half clever, half stupid, and half crazy.

I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as your most intelligent self. It is when you realize who...

worms have crawled up your nose and eaten your wits.

It’s the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.

Do not feel sorry for the bad luck of people, because behind everyone’s misery is their own stupidity and laziness.

Do be stupid,it’s genius.

Let us tear down the romantic trappings that have adorned passion. Let us cease believing that the measure of a man’s love lies in how stupid he has become or is willing to be.

And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

You looked a little bit smarter when your stupidity lessened a lot.

No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.

First, however, I must deal with the matter of Jesus, the so-called savior, who not long ago taught new doctrines and was thought to be a son of God. This savior, I shall attempt to...

Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

Please tell me you’re not that stupid.Rachel to Melkin

That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy.”Pex was unrepentant. “Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us … all those things.”But—buried alive! That’s like in that horror movie. Y’know — the one with all...

If you want to know whether a society is governed by intelligent and educated, or by unintelligent and uneducated men, see in which condition its scholars live. In a society governed by unintelligent and uneducated...

This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I’m not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

Don’t ever mistake silence for ignorance, when it is obviously stupidity

CUSTOMER: I don’t know why she wants it, but my wife asked for a copy of The Dinosaur Cookbook.BOOKSELLER: The Dinah Shore Cookbook?

Are you aware that humanity is just a blip? Not even a blip. Just a fraction of a fraction of what the universe has been and will become? Talk about perspective. I figure I can’t...

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

The earth is a great piece of stupidity.