Quotes about stupidity

But then history was made by fools.

The big Wall Street firms, seemingly so shrewd and self-interested, had somehow become the dumb money. The people who ran them did not understand their own businesses, and their regulators obviously knew even less.

I mean, animals may not be intelligent, but they’re not as stupid as a lot of human beings.

Freedom and idiots make a volatile mix. And the sad truth is that the idiocy quotient in the general population is alarmingly high.

The uplifters are forever running around telling blockheads they would do better if they would believe in themselves. But they already do. That is why they are blockheads.

The idiots always rose to the top and made policy.

It explained a lot of things.

The man was either foolish or fearless. Assuming there was a difference.

Well, everybody got stupid now and then, especially in war.

“Do you know,” said Maclaren, “there is one sin which is punished with unfailing certainty, and must therefore be the deadliest sin in all time. Stupidity.”

Do you think maybe I want power for myself? That’s for fools who want to command other fools.

I name you idiot for playing with powers you only presume to understand.

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.