#stupidity

Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any subtlety of thought or expression. A man for his time, indeed. ↗

— Iain Pears

#coarseness #crudeness #education #ignorance #stupidity

Will this be in the examination, Mr Hecker?" was the limit of my students' interest in any given subject. If it was going to be in the test they took notes, if it was not going to be in the test they did not take notes. Their silent, depthless stares were unnerving. I told myself that they were not stupid - for how could the final attainment of thousands of years of human progress be stupid? ↗

— Tod Wodicka

#students #stupidity #testing #education

Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity. ↗

— Toba Beta

#purpose #stupidity #equality

Never argue with an idiot; he will bring you down to his level and win from experience. ↗

— Brad Slipiec

#stupidity #experience

I'm not stupid!' In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#experience

If you think that you're so smart and holy, that means you haven't yet realized that a part of what we experience today...is a result of our stupidity and wickedness in the past. ↗

— Toba Beta

#smartness #stupidity #wickedness #experience

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#science #stupidity #humor

He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#stupidity #humor

Never confuse honor with stupidity! ↗

— R.A. Salvatore

#humor #stupidity #humor

I want you guys to line up alphabetically by height. ↗