If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Scott Adams

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

William Shakespeare

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

Karl Kraus

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

Heinrich Heine

I've done a fair share of stupid things in my life, a couple of which should have put me in the grave. But here I am, typing away as if I had a brain.

Craig Wilson

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Voltaire

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.

Harlan Ellison

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich von Schiller

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

Stephen Vizinczey

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

George Bernard Shaw

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no sin except stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

Scott Adams

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Edgar Allan Poe

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 religous or political ideas.

Aldous Huxley

The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.

Randy K. Milholland

Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.

Spanish Proverb

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Frank Leahy

As if there were safety in stupidity alone.

Henry David Thoreau

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

Pope John Paul Ii

Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.

Stanley Baldwin

As much as this disturbs me, it disturbs me even more that other kids living in this home had access to even more drugs, ... It's just sick that he allowed this to happen. It's sheer stupidity.

Joseph Conti

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Friedrich von Schiller

If they catch (Bonds) now, then punish him. If they find out about it after the fact, then it's their own stupidity.

Brian Chapman

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.

Chris Rock

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.

Bo Bennett

It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity.

Frank Zappa

The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do (and find the cure) all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.

Richard Feynman

One mans stupidity is another mans wisdom.

Lindsay Kolb

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

Cato the Elder

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

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

Alistair Cooke

I guess some of this was brought on myself, my stupidity. I don't know if it was naivety.

Faria Alam

I saw with open eyes/ Singing birds sweet/ Sold in the shops/ For the people to eat,/ Sold in the shops of/ Stupidity Street.// I saw in a vision/ The worm in the wheat,/ And in the shops nothing/ For people to eat;/ Nothing for sale in/ Stupidity Street.

Ralph Hodgson

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Elbert Hubbard

That's a question I've asked myself everyday for the past 18 months, ... I've yet to come up with a satisfactory answer other than my stupidity.

Robert Stevens

Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity.

Paul Graham

Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal.

Don Williams, Jr

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

Gustave Flaubert

It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?

William Booth

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

Edward Abbey

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

Paul Gauguin

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

Fernando Pessoa

There is more stupidity then hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life.

Frank Zappa

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

Louise Bogan

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

George Gissing

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

Frank Zappa

I retired from the ministry with some heart trouble. I'm supposed to be limited in my activity, but the Lord gave me some extra soup, or I have some extra stupidity, but I'm doing just fine.

Rev. Dave Rawley

It may be a case of bad judgment bordering on stupidity. What Mr. Regan had with him was worthless. It wasn't even classified. It posed no harm to the United States.

Jonathan Shapiro

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

Jean De La Bruyere

The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogren and stupidity.

Harlan Ellison

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

Yahoo Serious

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

After Afghanistan we could expect that we learned some lessons. But we repeated all the stupidity possible in Chechnya. It would be impossible to say Russia stopped the war, but you could say that only Russia lost the war.

Alexander Konovalov

It is scandalous - an horrific carnival of stupidity, hypocrisy and manipulated outrage celebrated with equal enthusiasm in the Muslim world and in 'liberal' Europe.

Neal Ascherson

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

Alexander Berkman

What has happened to music? Music used to show love and devotion, but know it preaches hate and stupidity. We artists must learn everything we say is going to affect the world. Every line, so don't preach death, preach love.

Kamanda Ndama

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Terry Pratchett

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Gustave Flaubert

It may be a case of bad judgment bordering on stupidity.

Jonathan Shapiro

Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.

Robert Anton Wilson

Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. (Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens).

Friedrich von Schiller

It's unfortunate the bears had to be put down out of the stupidity of the parent or parents involved. That's the worst aspect of this very unfortunate situation.

Bob James

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"

Will Rogers

Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.

J. Russell Lynes

Almost inexplicable in terms of blind stupidity.

Andrew Baker

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

Dame Edith Sitwell

Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless.

Jewish Proverb

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Robertson Davies

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.

L. M. Montgomery

[The attempt to ensure passage] was a mixture of arrogance and stupidity, ... It would have made a Sunni boycott (of Saturday's vote) inevitable.

Toby Dodge

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

You're still half a child, but you're getting in these adult situations with a sense of wonder and a sense of stupidity as well. I see it as a real universal suburban record.

Craig Finn

We're happy because (Nancy)'s happy. We're upset about (the carjacking) because it was our stupidity; it was our neglectfulness -- just for a second.

Carolyn Ferguson

I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.

Edith Sitwell

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything... it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.

Milan Kundera

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Hunter S. Thompson

Fool of a Took! Throw yourself in next time, and rid us of your stupidity!

Lord Of The Rings

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

Frank Zappa

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

Vladimir Nabokov

I've had a terrific battle with common sense, and finally stupidity won.

Paul Makin

If this is anything to do with the robbery, it's absolute stupidity beyond belief. That's the one thing you don't do.

Peter Lilley

RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.

Ambrose Bierce

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Edwin H. Land

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood / we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

Jean Rostand

It's just plain racism, ... What else can you call it? It's not like all 25 players are Latinos, so you can't blame it all on the Latino players. It's just stupidity. It's definitely sad that there are still stupid people like that guy out there.

Edgardo Alfonzo

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

Erwin Rommel

You are far from being the successor to Sharon. You proved today that you are fearful, confused and manipulative. You exhibited stupidity and opacity.

Effi Eitam

Every creative act is a sudden cessation of stupidity.

Edwin H. Land