Dummheit / Stupidity Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Dummheit / Stupidity:

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

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

David Hare

Stupidity fuses notoriety and celebrity.

Suzanne Fields

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

Robert Baden-Powell

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

Vartan Gregorian

Stupidity without malice isn't horrible; some people can't help it.

Ricky Gervais

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

Paul Gauguin

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

John Steinbeck

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Oscar Wilde

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

Gustave Flaubert

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

Karl Kraus

The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?

Ronnie James Dio

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

Vladimir Nabokov

Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity.

Lewis Black

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

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Unknown

There's a perennial debate about whether the propagandistic tripe produced by establishment media outlets is shaped more by evil or by stupidity. Personally, I think it's both: a healthy dose of each is needed. The system design is malicious, while those who serve as its public face are generally vacant.

Glenn Greenwald

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich Schiller

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Robert A. Heinlein

So much of existence is so boring. To have little moments of stupidity is always welcome.

Kurt Braunohler

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Gustave Flaubert

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

Gustave Flaubert

You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

Franz Grillparzer

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

Jerome Cady

Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.

Manfred von Richthofen

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

Louise Bogan

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

Albert Einstein

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

I will do whatever is necessary to make better the stupidity on my part - and therefore go after those who are acting stupid themselves. It's not popular. You don't make friends when you do that. And I couldn't care less.

Jerry Lewis

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Stephen Vizinczey

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Ayn Rand

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.

Tilda Swinton

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

The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.

Larry Kramer