#stupidity

The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it? ↗

— Ronnie James Dio

#been #degree #driven #greed #industry

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #desirability #disdain #education #empowerment

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#closed #crime #everybody #final #getting

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#intelligence #invented #made #man #stupidity

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

— Joni Mitchell

#face #heart #species #stupidity

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

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

Stupidity talks, vanity acts. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#stupidity #talks #vanity

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? ↗

— Albert Einstein

#human #humor #philosophy #stupidity #humor