Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. Robert A Heinlein
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. George Carlin
Here’s all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?
You’re just another American who is willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick being shoved up your asshole every day ... The owners of this country know the truth ... it’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it! George Carlin
Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are stupider than that. George Carlin
Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. John Steinbeck, East of Eden
What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition. Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
We have known for a long time that Prince Charles’ empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant. He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der Post. He was bowled over by the charms of homeopathic medicine. He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way. Christopher Hitchens
There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument. Christopher Hitchens
Irony is wasted on the stupid. Oscar Wilde
There is no sin except stupidity. Oscar Wilde
Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity. Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband II
The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
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. Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot
Stupidity – the top of the list for Satanic Sins. The Cardinal Sin of Satanism. It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful. Ignorance is one thing, but our society thrives increasingly on stupidity. It depends on people going along with whatever they are told. The media promotes a cultivated stupidity as a posture that is not only acceptable but laudable. Satanists must learn to see through the tricks and cannot afford to be stupid. Anton Szandor LaVey
One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphood was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn’t be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn’t understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid. He was renowned for being amazingly clever and quite clearly was so – but not all the time, which obviously worried him, hence, the act. He preferred people to be puzzled rather than contemptuous. Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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, The Subjection of Women
The Conservatives … being by the law of their existence the stupidest party. John Stuart Mill
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. John Stuart Mill
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, The Wealth of Nations
I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement. Robert Jordan, The Gathering Storm
It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves. Franz Kafka
I’m stupid, I’m ugly, I’m dumb, I smell. Did I mention I’m stupid? Eminem
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. Benjamin Franklin
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves. Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Life is tough, but it’s tougher if you’re stupid. John Wayne
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. Leo Tolstoy
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Robert J Hanlon
The fault rests with the gods, who have made her so stupid. Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, Méchant II:7
The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to exclaim, ‘Est il possible?’ – ‘Is it possible?’ Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, History of England I:IX
Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity. George Orwell, 1984 ch17
I’m glad Michael’s getting help. He has a lot of issues and he’s stupid. The Office US s7e2: Counselling, Phyllis, NBC 2007
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytising zeal on behalf of religious or political idols. Aldous Huxley
I feel stupid; I wish I could be smart like everybody else for a change. Trailer Park Boys s2e6: Never Trust a Man With No Shirt On, Ricky
I am humbled by the sheer stupidity of my actions. Better Call Saul s4e9: Wiedersehen, Saul to reinstatement panel, AMC 2018
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra, 1901
Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid. Kim Hubbard
Americans are possibly the dumbest people on the planet ... We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don’t know about anything that’s happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing. Michael Moore
Never agree with stupid people; they will drag you down to their level and the best you with experience. Mark Twain
It’s hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it’s damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person. Bill Murray