英语格言警句_Stupidity_(S19)

We can no longer tolerate anti-intellectualism. We can no longer tolerate liberal-bashing and we can no longer tolerate the politics of the dumb and the mean.

- Janeane Garofolo

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is being stupid together.

- Paul Valery

You can't legislate stupidity.

- Jesse Ventura

When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid, it can't last long." But though a war may be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting.

- Albert Camus

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are so confident while the intelligent are full of doubt.

- Bertrand Russell

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

- John Dewey

A stupid person should keep silent. But if he knew this, he would not be a stupid person.

- Muslih-ud-Din Saadi

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

- Plato

Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.

- Marc Estrin

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

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

- Will Rogers

First, God created idiots.That was just for practice.Then He created school boards.

- Mark Twain

Then there's politics. Just imagine politics with its dumbbell element subtracted. There would be no Republican candidates. There would be no Democratic voters. The whole system would collapse.

- P. J. O'Rourke

A mon mistake that people make when trying to design something pletely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of plete fools.

- Douglas Adams

With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

- Friedrich von Schiller

Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do.

- Bertrand Russell

Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills. [on causes of the Columbine High School massacre, 1999]

- Tom DeLay

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[W]hen people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

- Isaac Asimov

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.(attributed)

- Abraham Lincoln

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

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

- Edwin Land

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

- Albert Einstein

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

- John Stuart Mill

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

- Elbert Hubbard

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.

- Bill Cosby

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

- Malcolm Forbes

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

- Sam Levenson