Stupidity Quotes

• Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. - unknown


• Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. - Douglas Adams (1952-2001)


• It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair


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


• There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. - Goethe


• 'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt. - Samuel Johnson


• A great many open minds should be closed for repairs. - Toledo Blade


• A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. - William James


• Nobody ever went broke by underestimating the intelligence or taste of the American public. - HL Mencken and/or PT Barnum


• Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. - Nick Diamos


• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein


• Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference. - unknown


• Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. - Henry David Thoreau


• Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. - Martin Luther King, Jr.


• I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence. - Edgar Allen Poe


• The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. - Frank Zappa


• Stupidity has a certain charm -- ignorance does not. - Frank Zappa


• The next time I send a damn fool on an errand, I'll go myself. - Dan Stole


• Blessed is the man who, having nothing to stay, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot


• Why do most people think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe? - Poul Anderson


• Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book. - Philip Jose Farmer [substitute above: Google, Fox News, or any other single source for "encyclopedia"]


• A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence. - Bruce Catton, A Stillness at Appomattox, (1953)


• Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. - unknown


• Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. - unknown


• Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.


• Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.


• It has been said that thousands of monkeys banging on keyboards would produce the complete works of Shakespeare. The internet has proven this to be untrue.


• You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. - James Thurber