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quotes by topic Stupidity

" 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. "

Stupidity , Brain , Sloth

" The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom. "

Appearance , Stupidity , Ignorance

" Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot. "

Thinking , Stupidity , Idiot

" If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy. "

Stupidity , Greed , simple

" There are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to achieve. "

J. Budziszewski

Stupidity , Intelligent

" You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid‚Äîand I know they are‚Äîyet I won't be wiser? "

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Stupidity , Life

" The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. "

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Intelligence , Stupidity

" Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped. "

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Man , Stupidity

" All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind. "

Stupidity , Humor

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

Agatha Christie

Stupidity