#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

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

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

— E.A. Bucchianeri

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

Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#death

The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke. ↗

— Octave Mirbeau

#danger #explosion #greatest #greatest danger #provoke

All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92) ↗

— Norma Fox Mazer

#pigs #stupidity #intelligence

What Democrats call 'nuanced,' most people refer to as 'stupidity.' ↗

— Evan Sayet

#democrats #most #nuanced #people #refer