Overcoming collective stupidity on an ongoing basis is a role
for leadership in any organization.
Stupidity is waiting on something to happen when you could
have done something from the beginning.
Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them!
Stupid was a prison they never let you out of,
no time off for good behavior, you were in for life.
When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by
this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
We do not believe in great stupidity as a common natural gift;
doubtless, it sometimes is so; but as seen among grown-up people,
it is often artificial.
There are only two ways by which to rise in this world,
either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you
really are is that you very often succeed.
The stupider one is, the closer one is to reality. The stupider
one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless,
while intelligence wriggles and hides itself.
Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest
and straightforward.
The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn't
know they were stupid.
The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that
he is wise.
The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool.
The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
The deep and vast reservoir of human stupidity is
significantly more upsetting than what lurks out in the
night sky.
That took more than ordinary dullness, the kind of
stupidity that can only result from long practice
and hard study.
Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear
intelligence.
Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.
Stupidity is not a shield for accountability.
Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be
inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the
person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and
feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties.
Stupidity is at the heart of why and how things go wrong.
Stupidity is an inevitable side effect of being a young male.
CHADD SCOTT, "There are good reasons college football
players should talk to 'local' media", Gridiron
He is not only dull himself,
but the cause of dullness in others.
There are only two ways by which to rise in this world,
either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions
do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to
ask questions?
Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way
of my stupidity. I say we press on.
It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than
ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
Stupidity is not a shield for accountability.
We do not believe in great stupidity as a common natural
gift; doubtless, it sometimes is so; but as seen among grown-up
people, it is often artificial.
Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them!
Stupidity is at the heart of why and how things go wrong.
Honestly, if you were any slower, you'd be going backward.
Stupidity is an inevitable side effect of being a young male.
English stupidity is an organism so primitive that it is
apparently impossible to kill off. It reminds me of Physarum
Polycephalum, the gigantic slime mould recently bred by
scientists at Bonn. Bright yellow and about two millimetres thick,
this monocellular creature--neither plant nor animal--
grew to a size of 10 square yards before the scientists took fright
and froze it. It can smell its favourite food, and move
towards it at a speed of up to two centimetres an hour.
This favourite food is porridge.
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he
wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the
three requirements for happiness -- though if stupidity
is lacking, the others are useless.
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing
his cleverness forbids.
Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than
your opponent's blade.
It is difficult to decide which is most entitled to pity,
he who is inoculated with stupidity, or he who has come by
it in the natural way.
Nothing is more difficult than to distinguish in children real
stupidity from that apparent and deceitful stupidity,
which is the precursor of great men.
Stupidity belongs to no station in life; it is as often found
beneath silks and broadcloth as calico and homespun.
The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool.
The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that
he is wise.
The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn't
know they were stupid.
The stupider one is, the closer one is to reality. The stupider
one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless,
while intelligence wriggles and hides itself. Intelligence is a
knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you
really are is that you very often succeed.
There are only two ways by which to rise in this world,
either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.
When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by
this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing,
it is always from the noblest motives.
You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result
from stupidity.
