#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

These thrill seeker people doing extreme sports...they have a hideous accident, go through agonizing recovery, and then go back to that activity that nearly killed them...that's not facing your fear, that's embracing your stupidity. ↗

— Kelli Jae Baeli

#fear #philosophy-of-life #stupidity #thrill-seekers #life

Anything too stupid to be said is sung. ↗

— Voltaire

#music #singing #song #stupid #stupidity

I am not sure how evil religion by nature is, but I have no doubt of its stupidity and insanity in practice. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#stupidity #nature

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#doctor #lawyer #mankind #sees #stupidity

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty. ↗