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.
To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.
If you hang around long enough, they think you're good. It's either my tenacity or stupidity - I'm not sure which.
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
I always told myself that if I was going to be given a voice, I might as well say something worth listening to and not something that's just going to feed people stupidity.
But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
I'm very much inspired by things that anger me. If I see bigotry, stupidity, or injustice on the news, I'm inspired to find a way to make it into something comedic and relatable. Anger inspires me. Stupidity inspires me. My family inspires me. My accountant inspires me. Everything and anything, really.
People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.
Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
'Stupidity' defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we've never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we've never felt stupider. We now collectively inhabit a state of stupidity.
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
I'm sure there have been a lot of boys I've chased over the years that has been fueled by alcohol and stupidity. But that's kind of how things happen - sometimes you have to do something really stupid, and sometimes it works out, and sometimes you fall flat on your face.
To think that we can understand everything is such stupidity because our senses are so limited. We are so limited that to feel that we can understand the creation scientifically is a little bit naive. It's very childish.
I'd rather spend my time with grape growers than actors. In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness.
Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.
Stupidity knows no bounds and certainly no city limits, but by and large, 99 percent of the people who come to Melvins shows seem to be relatively well behaved... I'm happy and relieved by this.
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.
I'm afraid that eating in restaurants reflects one's experiences with movies, art galleries, novels, music - that is, characterized by mild amusement but with an overall feeling of stupidity and shame. Better to cook for yourself.