Quotes on Stupidity! 350 Stupid Quotes, Sayings about Stupidity

Quotes on Stupidity

  • “Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” —George Bernard Shaw
  • “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” —Albert Einstein
  • “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” —Benjamin Franklin
  • “I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.” —Edith Sitwell
  • “Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.” —Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” —Albert Einstein
  • “It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.” —Sam Levenson
  • “The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.” —Voltaire
  • “Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.” —Anatole France
  • “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.” —Mark Twain
  • “The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” —Niccolo Machiavelli
  • “When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.” —George Bernard Shaw
  • “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
  • “Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.” —P. J. O’Rourke

Funny Quotes about Stupidity

  • “The downside of playing dumb is that you sound dumb.” —Rachel Maddow
  • “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” —George Carlin
  • “Smart people have the brains, but stupid people have the balls.” —Ana Sáez González
  • “I’m fairly certain that YOLO is just Carpe Diem for stupid people.” —Jack Black
  • “Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.” —Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced
  • “There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.” —Frank Zappa
  • “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” —Albert Einstein
  • “On the internet you can be anything you want. It’s strange that so many people choose to be stupid.” —Anonymous
  • “He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.” —P.G. Wodehouse
  • “I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.” —Derek Landy, Death Bringer
  • “The problem is, that no matter where you work there’s going to be people that are so dumb you wonder how the hell they remember to breathe every morning.” —Lillian Strange

Sarcastic Quotes On Stupidity

  • “Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.”
  • “Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot.”
  • “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” —Unknown
  • “The two most common elements in the world are hydrogen and stupidity.”
  • “Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”
  • “He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.”
  • “The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid.”
  • “Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent’s blade.”
  • “The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.”
  • “It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.”
  • “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
  • “It’s better to be the greatest of all stupids than to be the dumbest of all intelligent people.”
  • “Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.”
  • “Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are stupider than that.”
  • “He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.”
  • “Stupidity is like a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone’s arguing over where they’re going to sit.”
  • “One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothing can beat teamwork.”
  • “Stupid was a prison they never let you out of, no time off for good behavior, you were in for life.”
  • “The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool.”
  • “There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one’s own industry or by the stupidity of others.”
  • “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.”
  • “A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.”
  • “Tell a man something is bad, and he’s not at all sure he wants to give it up. Describe it as stupid, and he knows it’s the better part of caution to listen.” —David Seabury

Intellectual Quotes About Stupidity

  • “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” —Søren Kierkegaard
  • “It’s strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.” —Auliq Ice
  • “There’s a thin line between genius and bottom-barrel stupidness. I hover delicately on a tightrope between the two, wondering where I’ll land if I’ll ever fall.” —Suzanne Crowley, The Very Ordered Existence of Merilee Marvelous
  • “For 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, Complete Essays 1, 1920-25
  • “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, The Brothers Karamazov
  • “We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.” —Christopher Hitchens
  • “In Madeleine’s face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.” —Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
  • “Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, ‘See, he is a wise man!’ Is it not so?” —H. Rider Haggard, She
  • “Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless.” —Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • “Stupid people don’t always know that they’re stupid. They might be aware that something is wrong, they might notice that things don’t usually turn out the way they imagined, but very few of them think it’s because of them. That they’re the root of their own problems, so to speak. And that sort of thing can be very difficult to explain.” —Jonas Karlsson, The Room
  • “Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is ignorant of one thing or another. They know that, to another intelligent person, they will not appear stupid in asking for an explanation of what they do not know, and so their ignorance on any particular issue does not become an embarrassment.” —Lynsay Sands, Love Is Blind
  • “Stupidity—The top of the list for Satanic Sins. The Cardinal Sin of Satanism. It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful. Ignorance is one thing, but our society thrives increasingly on stupidity. It depends on people going along with whatever they are told. The media promotes a cultivated stupidity as a posture that is not only acceptable but laudable. Satanists must learn to see through the tricks and cannot afford to be stupid.” —Anton Szandor LaVey
  • “I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I’ve got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And when a girl comes along who has about twice the regular allowance, she too often makes a bee line for me with the love light in her eyes. I don’t know how to account for it, but it is so. It may be Nature’s provision for maintaining the balance of the species, sir.” —P.G. Wodehouse
  • “One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn’t be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn’t understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid. He was renowned for being amazingly clever and quite clearly was so—but not all the time, which obviously worried him, hence, the act. He preferred people to be puzzled rather than contemptuous.” —Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Stupid Funny Quotes

  • “Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can’t see.”
  • “Doing nothing is hard, you never know when you’re done.”
  • “Did you just fall? No, I was checking if gravity still works.”
  • “I’m multitasking: I can listen, ignore and forget at the same time.”
  • “Sometimes I’m grateful that thoughts don’t appear as bubbles over our heads.”
  • “Alcohol, what’s that? It’s not in my vodkabulary, but let me check in whiskypedia.”
  • “I’ve made it from the bed to the couch. There’s no stopping me now.”
  • “Instead of LOL why don’t you try LOLWKASF: Laughing Out Loud While Keeping A Straight Face.”
  • “No matter how smart you are you can never convince someone stupid that they are stupid.”
  • “Dear Math, please grow up and solve your own problems, I’m tired of solving them for you.”
  • “Teacher: Why are you talking during my lesson? Student: Why are you teaching during my conversation?” —Anonymous
  • “A cop pulled me over and told me “Papers”, so I said “Scissors, I win!” and drove off.”
  • “I don’t mean to brag, but I put together a puzzle in 1 day and the box said 2-4 years.”
  • “Be crazy, be stupid, be silly, and be weird. Be whatever, because life is too short to be anything but happy.”
  • “I would like to apologize to anyone whom I haven’t offended yet. Please be patient, I will get to you shortly.”
  • “What I do when I see someone pretty is, I stare, I smile then when I get tired I put the mirror down.”
  • “When my boss asked me who is the stupid one, me or him? I told him everyone knows he doesn’t hire stupid people.”
  • “What is the best thing to do when you have a hole in a boat and water is leaking inside? Make another hole to drain the water.”
  • “My neighbor asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn’t take it out of my garden.” —Eric Morecambe
  • “The broccoli says ‘I look like a small tree’, the mushroom says ‘I look like an umbrella’, the walnut says ‘I look like a brain’, and the banana says ‘Can we please change the subject?’” —Anonymous

Witty Quotes About Stupidity

  • “Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.” —Bertrand Russell
  • “If brains were gold, you’d be poorer than Weasley, and that’s saying something.” —J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
  • “Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.” —Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” —Laurence J. Peter
  • “I’m not stupid!” In Bean’s experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.” —Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Shadow
  • “Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on.” —Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infinity
  • “[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.” —Stephen Hawking
  • “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.” —Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot

Insightful Quotes about Stupidity

  • “Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.” —William Faulkner, Mosquitoes
  • “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.” —Robert J. Hanlon
  • “Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.” —Joseph Joubert
  • “Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.” —Margaret Atwood, Surfacing
  • “Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent’s blade.” —Patricia Briggs, Dragon Bones
  • “You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.” —Robert A. Heinlein, The Green Hills of Earth
  • “Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.” —John Steinbeck, East of Eden
  • “Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.” —Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
  • “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” —Douglas Adams
  • “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.” —Harlan Ellison
  • “I’ve learned two things the hard way: You can’t fix stupid and you shouldn’t use up your patience to fix stupid.” —Karen A. Baquiran
  • ““Brave? Or stupid?” Roger shrugged. “I’ve never been quite sure where brave stopped and stupid began, myself.” —Gerald Morris, The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf
  • “If you think that you are living in a stupid country, you can be sure that you are being governed by the most stupid people.” —Mehmet Murat ildan
  • “When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.” —Jonathan Swift, Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays
  • “Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.” —Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
  • “A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.” —Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy
  • “The stupid are always in a tendency to create enemies; on the other hand the clever are always in a tendency to create friendships. Make friends with anything or anybody possible, in short, be clever.” —Mehmet Murat ildan
  • “If your country is governed by the most stupid people, it is vital for you to continue going up personally while your nation and your country is going down because your country will inevitably collapse and it will be in need of people like you, people who managed to improve themselves while everything else was falling and deteriorating.” —Mehmet Murat ildan

Short Quotes about Stupidity

  • “Beauty fades, dumb is forever.” —Judy Sheindlin
  • “Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.” —Sophocles
  • “Irony is wasted on the stupid.” —Oscar Wilde
  • “Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.” —Gustave Flaubert
  • “Never underestimate human stupidity.” —Pittacus Lore, The Fallen Legacies
  • “In politics stupidity is not a handicap.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
  • “Fools multiply when wise men are silent.” —Nelson Mandela
  • “I’ll take crazy over stupid any day.” —Joss Whedon
  • “Stupidity is not a crime. You’re free to go.” —Anonymous
  • “A stupid man–the most dangerous animal of all.” —Ariana Franklin
  • “It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.” —Anton Szandor LaVey
  • “Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.” —Robert A. Heinlein
  • “Smart people don’t have the luxury of playing stupid.” —Dan Brown
  • “Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.” —John Wayne
  • “There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • “Life is hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.” —Michael Crichton
  • “If you’re gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.” —John Grisham
  • “You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.” —Scott Adams
  • “I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.” —Blaise Pascal
  • “Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.” —Frank Leahy
  • “Without stupid people we would have no one to laugh at.” —Anonymous
  • “I don’t get why this whole world runs on stupidity.” —Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner
  • “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.” —Euripides, The Bacchae
  • “There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.” —Aristotle

Unexpected Quotes about Stupidity

  • “The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.” —Harlan Ellison
  • “If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can’t get us out.” —Will Rogers
  • “It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.” —Franz Kafka
  • “Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.” —J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  • “There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.” —Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
  • “Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.” —Marilyn Monroe
  • “I’ve always believed that a person is smart. It’s people that are stupid.” —Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

Sarcasm Quotes on Stupid People

  • “One day there’ll be a museum of stupidity.”
  • “I’ve always believed that a person is smart. It’s people that are stupid.”
  • “The dumbest people I know are those who Know It All.” —Malcolm Forbes
  • “The deep and vast reservoir of human stupidity is significantly more upsetting than what lurks out in the night sky.”
  • “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
  • “A stupid person laughs three times at a joke; once when everyone else is laughing, a second time when he actually gets the joke, and a third time when he realizes he was laughing without getting the joke at first.”
  • “Stupid people don’t always know that they’re stupid. They might be aware that something is wrong, they might notice that things don’t usually turn out the way they imagined, but very few of them think it’s because of them. That they’re the root of their own problems, so to speak. And that sort of thing can be very difficult to explain.”

Cynical Quotes about Stupidity

  • “Dramatic uprising of stupidity can start from nowhere and only be seen when it reaches its climax.” —Auliq Ice
  • “Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don’t laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.” —Criss Jami, Killosophy
  • “The problem with the world is that everyone does not have a brain, but everyone does have a tongue.” —Raheel Farooq
  • “Stupidity isn’t punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.” —Laurell K. Hamilton, The Laughing Corpse
  • “In low intelligent ignorant societies, the clever are denigrated and the stupid are belauded; the brainy are stoned and the dull are held in high esteem.” —Mehmet Murat ildan
  • “Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.” —George Bernard Shaw, The Irrational Knot
  • “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” —Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle
  • “Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.” —Robert A. Heinlein
  • “Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.” —Jim Butcher, Vignette

Stupidity Quotes and Sayings

  • “Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.” —Friedrich von Schiller
  • “It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.” —Confucius
  • “Stupidity makes you dangerous–to yourself and everyone around you.” —Jennifer Lee Carrell
  • “Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.” —Bernard Barton
  • “Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.” —Remy de Gourmont
  • “I’m allergic to stupidity.” —Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal
  • Insanity is just what we call stupidity when it doesn’t make sense.” —Josh Lieb
  • “Come on, gentleman; let us drink to our stupidity.” —Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
  • “Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.” —Pope John Paul II
  • “Ignorance can be educated. Crazy can be medicated. But there is no cure for stupid.” —Anonymous
  • “Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.” —Chris Lowe
  • “Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.” —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
  • “If it is stupid but it works, it isn’t stupid.” —(a Shin’a’in saying) Mercedes Lackey, Owlknight
  • “One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.” —Jean-Paul Sartre
  • “I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement.” —Robert Jordan, The Gathering Storm
  • “Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.” —Stephen Vizinczey
  • “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” —Bertrand Russell
  • “Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are stupider than that.” —George Carlin
  • “The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.” —Arthur Schopenhauer
  • “What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.” —Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
  • “It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.” —Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • “He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don’t let that fool you. He really is an idiot.” —Groucho Marx
  • “Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person’s notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties.” —John Stuart Mill