Reflections on Human Stupidity

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” 
― Albert Einstein

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.” 
― Euripides

“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” 
― George Carlin

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.” 
― Harlan Ellison

“Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.” 
― Laurell K. Hamilton

“Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.” 
― Jim Butcher

“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.” 
― Margaret Atwood

“I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does...”
― Tom Petty

“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.” 
― John Steinbeck

“I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.” 
― George Bernard Shaw

“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.” 
― John Stuart Mill,

“Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit.
-- Jim C. Hines

“Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.” 
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction!” 
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupid person that blindly believes the lies they are told, without question.” 
― Shannon L. Alder

“Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.” 
― Sammy Davis Jr.


“Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.” 
― Slavoj Žižek

“Stupidity is doomed,
therefore, to cringe
at every syllable
of wisdom.” 
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“This life's hard, but it's harder if you're stupid.” 
― George V. Higgins

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