Quotes about stupidity

Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.

He had developed in the most wonderful way the distinctive silliness of man without losing one jot of the natural folly of a monkey.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

"For it gratified him, he said, to discover that Charlotte Lucas, whom he had been used to think tolerably sensible, was as foolish as his wife, and more foolish than his daughter!"

"If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it... This is the only point, I flatter myself, on which we do not agree. I had hoped that our sentiments coincided in every particular, but I must so far differ from you as to think our two youngest daughters uncommonly foolish."

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.

I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too.

Into a limbo large and broad, since call'd

The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown.

With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much.

Louis knew a few xenophobes, and regarded them as dolts.

The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.