Quotes about stupidity

Let the Vorin believe as they wish—the wise among them will find goodness and solace in their faith; the fools would be fools no matter what they believed.

They were not demons, they were just men who had too much power and not enough sense.

How can a man be so brilliant and so obtuse?

SHALMANESER   That real cool piece of hardware up at the GT tower. They say he's apt to evolve to true consciousness one day. Also they say he's as intelligent as a thousand of us put together, which isn't really saying much, because when you put a thousand of us together look how stupidly we behave.

It's not just that I'm stupid; it's that I'm just smart enough to know how stupid I am. I wish I weren't so stupid. Or that I were stupider.

The fact that many people overindulge, and lose themselves in excess, and make fools of themselves and act like idiots, is no reason for me to do these things. The reason for me to do these things is that I, too, am an idiot.

Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured?

A man of limited vision is hard to bear with in any sphere in which he is invested with power, but intolerable in the army.

Only a numskull is pleased at being a so-called 'success' with women, only a dunderhead is puffed up by it. A real man is much more likely to be dismayed at realizing that a woman has lost her heart to him when he can't reciprocate her feelings.

There was something about such reflex stupidity that never failed to irritate him.

Trouble comes looking for you if you’re a fool.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.