#stupidity

People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. BecauHse people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true, or because they are afraid it might be true. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#wizard-s-first-rule #zedd #motivational

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#science #stupidity #nature

Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#man #stupidity #nature

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dislikes #racism #religion #scepticism #stupidity

If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#put-downs #stupidity #brain

The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#regret #stupidity #victory #ignorance

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#willful-ignorance #ignorance

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#stupidity #stupidity

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid. ↗

— Joan Bauer

#library #stupidity

But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid. ↗

— Mikhail Bulgakov

#good #stupidity