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Tag Name "Stupidity" (801)

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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.
Percy Williams Bridgman
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
Umberto Eco
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[I am fascinated by stupidity] because normal intelligence is boring. Two plus two makes four - finished. You have no possibilities! Stupidity is infinite. Two plus two can make billions of different numbers.
Umberto Eco
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The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.
Upton Sinclair
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He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.
Michael Lewis
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Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
Vartan Gregorian
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What keeps people from living together is their stupidity, not their differences.
Anna Gavalda
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Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.
Ann Rinaldi
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Who will argue that 98.6 Farenheit is the right temperature for man? As for me, I decline to do it. It may be that we are all actually freezing hence the pervading stupidity of mankind. At 110 or 115 degrees even archbishops might be intelligent.
H. L. Mencken
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Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes for his crass stupidity and hideous face.
Leonard Woolf
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Office of the Vice President... The Council on Competativeness.
Dan Quayle
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Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species.
Robert B. Leighton
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If England are going to win this match, they're going to have to score a goal.
Jimmy Hill
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Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I’m not stupid. (Xypher) I didn’t say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.
Gilbert Highet
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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Voltaire
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
Voltaire
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The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
Voltaire
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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
Voltaire
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Racism, prejudice and discrimination are an inexplicable collective stupidity
Anderson Silva
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Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
Anatole France
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Man thinks his mind's love for world power and his heart's love for world peace can live together. Indeed, this is the height of man's stupidity.
Sri Chinmoy
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Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Walt Whitman
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