Quotes about stupidity

The media always calls this sort of thing senseless, but the motive made sense—it was just stupid, is what it was.

I’ll say this for the Queen. She was brave—or possibly stupid. It’s easy to mistake the two.

“You know how some people work at being stupid?” she asked. “If you give them a clear, common sense choice they give it a lot of thought and then choose stupid.”

There were screams and yells from the street below as people saw what was happening. There would be lots of phone-camera footage on the news that night from people with more media-savvy than brains.

I looked at Lesley—surely nobody could really be that stupid? She shrugged. Lesley has a much lower opinion of humanity than I do.

"Lady, do I look like a bleeping babysitter?"

"He nearly died."

"Yeah, because he's a fool. There's no known cure for that." (Chapter 6)

“I wonder why somebody would go to all that trouble to make a complete fool of himself.”

“Come on, Gina, we both know why.”

“Oh, I guess you’re right. Money will always do it.”

Of course.

Well. You were allowed to be young and stupid, when you were young and stupid, and if it didn’t do you in, you might get older and wiser.

The folly of men, not their hard-heartedness, was the great cause of the world's poverty. It was not the crime of man, nor of any class of men, that made the race so miserable, but a hideous, ghastly mistake, a colossal world-darkening blunder.

It seemed incredible to him that people were stupid enough to store their entire life on five inches of plastic for anyone to poke about in.

“It’s an old trick,” the security chief said. “Reverse cunning, we call it in the security game; indistinguishable from utter stupidity.”

When the going gets tough, the smart get going and the stupid keep heading toward trouble.