#stupidity

You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser? ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#stupidity #life

life is tough but its tougher when you're stupid ↗

— John Wayne

#knowledge #stupidity #wisdom #life

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. ↗

— Adam Smith

#stupidity #work #life

Be a hero or enjoy fucking life, don’t try to be bunch of stupid flesh acting as normal humans. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#stupidity #life

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them? ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

#between #choose #cowardice #despair #need

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

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#comes #kindness #popularity #rather #stupidity

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none. ↗

— Claude Chabrol

#infinitely #intelligence #limits #more #none

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#gives #infinite #patience #stupidity #you

Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice. ↗