#stupidity

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

— Gustave Flaubert

#attacks #breaking #granite #hard #itself

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

— Gustave Flaubert

#bourgeois #democracy #dream #level #proletarian

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

— Gustave Flaubert

#good health #happiness #health #lacking #lost

Man is the inventor of stupidity. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#man #stupidity

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

— Vartan Gregorian

#behalf #fragments #humanity #keep #libraries

What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#almost #because #been #comedies #comedy

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#here #his #ignorance #immorality #legion

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

#bad #good #optimism #pretend #seriously

There is no sin except stupidity. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#sin #stupidity

Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humour #intelligence #stupidity #funny