Quotes Tagged "stupidity"

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

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?

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.

I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.

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.

People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.

So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been discredited, the world will not pass into the hands of credulous herbivores who keep crystals by their sides and swoon over the poems of Khalil Gibran. The 'vacuum' will be invaded instead by determined fundamentalists of every stripe who already know the truth by means of revelation and who actually seek real and serious power in the here and now. One thinks of the painstaking, cloud-dispelling labor of British scientists from Isaac Newton to Joseph Priestley to Charles Darwin to Ernest Rutherford to Alan Turing and Francis Crick, much of it built upon the shoulders of Galileo and Copernicus, only to see it casually slandered by a moral and intellectual weakling from the usurping House of Hanover. An awful embarrassment awaits the British if they do not declare for a republic based on verifiable laws and principles, both political and scientific.

The only people that can't handle the truth are those that suffer so much anxiety that they will live in denial, in order to prevent their illusion from being destroyed and feeling more anxiety.

Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!

Bizim hepimizin içinde zübüklük olmasa, bizler de birer zübük olmasak, aramızdan böyle zübükler büyüyemezdi. Hepimizde birer parça olan zübüklük birleşip işte başımıza böyle zübükler çıkıyor. Oysa zübüklük bizde, bizim içimizde. Onları biz, kendi zübüklüğümüzden yaratıyoruz. Sonra, kendi zübüklüklerimizin bir tek Zübük’de birleştiğini görünce ona kızıyoruz. Bu zübükler heryerde var, biz zübükler nerde varsak, onlar da orada...