I'm posting some quotes about stupidity today, because the stupidity I see around me has really started to get to me. I don't understand how educated people can behave so stupidly in some instances, and I don't understand how some people won't use their God-given intelligence. They would rather follow a leader slavishly than use their brains and their conscience to figure out the right path for them to follow. They refuse to follow the words of Christ, yet will unthinkingly follow the words of men who are far from Christian. They don't see the hypocrisy of their situation. They don't acknowledge the lying, the self-deception, the polarization they see around them, created by the men (often quite stupid themselves) that they worship. The first and last quotes offer hope to those who want to deal with and get past the stupidity of others, and perhaps in oneself as well.
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The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and
dishonesty. --John Steinbeck
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Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just
plain stupid, obvious stupidity. --Lewis Black
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Scientists will eventually stop flailing around
with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited
source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future,
scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel. --Scott Adams
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We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our
greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small
and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. --Stephen Hawking
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There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the
universe, and it has a longer shelf life. --Frank Zappa
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Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it
is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I
say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block
of the universe. --Frank Zappa
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My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity
of my species. --Joni Mitchell
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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the
lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. --Arthur
Schopenhauer
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The stupidity of people comes from having an
answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for
everything. --Milan Kundera
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the
proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. --Gustave
Flaubert
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he
tries to involve it in his own stupidity. --Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for
stupidity. --Sammy Davis, Jr.
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That's how I was taught. That's how I was raised, to ignore the
stupidity, continue on and do what I need to do. --Bubba Wallace
