#stupidity

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species. ↗

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

#almost #called #even #expert #friend

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self. ↗

— George Grosz

#beliefs #best #bitter #bitter end #brutality

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

— David Hare

#inability #language #same #stupidity #thing

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. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#because #bird #catch #come #confident

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. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#danger #destroying #greed #increasingly #inwards

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#human #never #never underestimate #stupidity #underestimate

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#expression #humanitarianism #stupidity

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#mad #man #often #saves #stupidity

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. ↗