#stupidity

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#doubt #ignorance #intelligence #knowledge #philosophy

I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And when a girl comes along who has about twice the regular allowance, she too often makes a bee line for me with the love light in her eyes. I don't know how to account for it, but it is so." "It may be Nature's provision for maintaining the balance of the species, sir. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#brains #evolution #humor #intelligence #love

Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is ignorant of one thing or another. They know that, to another intelligent person, they will not appear stupid in asking for an explanation of what they do not know, and so their ignorance on any particular issue does not become an embarrassment. ↗

— Lynsay Sands

#stupid #stupidity #intelligence

Though my stomach is only the size of a pea, I could eat two politicians’ brains.
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— Jarod Kintz

#eat #eating #food #funny #humor

No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that: a) people whom one had once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid. b) day after day, with unceasing monotony, one is harassed in one's activities by stupid individuals who appear suddenly and unexpectedly in the most inconvenient places and at the most improbable moments. ↗

— Carlo M. Cipolla

#intelligence

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#deceived #frauds #some #stupidity #them

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#know #never #ourselves #really #stupidity

I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as your most intelligent self. It is when you realize who you are and the extents of the good and the evils which you are capable of. ↗

— Criss Jami

#censorship #evil #extensive #extremes #good

It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artist #artists #arts-and-humanities #gadfly #rebel

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all. ↗

— George Gissing

#because #better #better things #capacity #individuals