#stupid

Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens. ↗

— Friedrich von Schiller

#stupidity #inspirational

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. ↗

— Erwin Rommel

#commander #courage #expediency #goes #insisted

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#politics #stupidity #humor

Prugo gazes at his image onscreen, cocking his head this was and that, making "sexy" faces, checking himself out. Inspired, he gets up and lifts up his shirt, showing off his bare midriff. Then he turns around and does a booty dance for the camera. ↗

— Nancy Jo Sales

#inspirational

You have to be quite stupid to act. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#quite #stupid #you

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

— Albert Einstein

#about #former #human #i #infinite

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how. ↗

— Jane Austen

#intelligence #sense #stupidity #intelligence

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#doubt #ignorance #intelligence #knowledge #philosophy

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

#brains #evolution #humor #intelligence #love

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

#stupid #stupidity #intelligence