Quotes about stupidity

I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day."

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fools wrath is heavier than them both.

There is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

We are set irrevocably, I believe, on a path that will take us to the stars—unless in some monstrous capitulation to stupidity and greed, we destroy ourselves first.

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.

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

"That," said Wednesday, driving off, "is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones. Worm food. At night, you're rubbing yourself against worm food. No offense meant."

And should we not be guilty of consummate folly if we were to reject advantages which we cannot obtain otherwise, merely because they involve a greater gain to others than to ourselves?

That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.