70 Best Stupidity Quotes To Know Whether It's Good Or Bad (2024)

Stupidity is the lack of understanding, reason. The word stupidity is used with a related term for “fool,” “stupid,” “dumb,” for those who are the lack of understanding.

Sometimes it’s good to be stupid. It is liked by people, it is also a way to make people laugh. People laugh and are happy when they hear or see some stupid things. And it is also said that out of stupid things new things arise. As said by Oscar Wilde, “Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”

That’s why you must read the stupidity quotes given below. Here we have shared the thoughts many authors said on Stupid. Let’s read the below stupid quotes.

  • Best Quotes About Stupidity
  • Human Stupidity Quotes
  • Stupidity Quotes and Sayings
  • Funny Quotes About Being Stupid
  • Ignorance and Stupidity Quotes
  • Stupidity Quotes About Love

Best Quotes About Stupidity

1. “Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.” ― Oscar Wilde

2. “Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent’s blade.” ― Patricia Briggs

3. “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” ― Albert Einstein

4. “If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

5. “All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I’m not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.” ― Mark Haddon

6. “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” ― Robert J. Hanlon

7. “People demand freedom of speech as compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” ― Søren Kierkegaard

8. “A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.” ― Bertrand Russell

9. “He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.” ― P.G. Wodehouse

10. “Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.” ― Joseph Joubert

11. “I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.” ― Derek Landy

12. “There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.” ― Thomas Mann

Human Stupidity Quotes

13. “The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte

14. “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” ― George Carlin

15. “Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.” ― Margaret Atwood

16. “Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.” ― John Steinbeck

17. “Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

18. “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.” ― Euripides

19. “Irony is wasted on the stupid.” ― Oscar Wilde

20. “The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.” ― Harlan Ellison

21. “You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

22. “If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he’d be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting ‘All gods are bastards!” ― Terry Pratchett

23. “Stupidity isn’t punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.” ― Laurell K. Hamilton

24. “Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.” ― Jim Butcher

25. “There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.” ― Frank Zappa

26. “Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on.” ― Sherrilyn Kenyon

27. “Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.” ― Slavoj Žižek

Stupidity Quotes and Sayings

28. “And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.” ― Leo Tolstoy

29. “Never underestimate human stupidity.” ― Pittacus Lore

30. “If you’re gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.” ― John Grisham

31. “Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.” ― Gustave Flaubert

32. “He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn’t have time to sleep.” ― Tamora Pierce

33. “Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.” ― Lois McMaster Bujold

34. “I have defined the hundred percent American as ninety-nine percent an idiot.” ― George Bernard Shaw

35. “Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.” ― Robert Heinlein

36. “Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.” ― Carl Sagan

37. “Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person’s notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties.” ― John Stuart Mill

38. You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.” ― Nevil Shute

39. “People resist a census but give them a profile page and they’ll spend all day telling you who they are.” ― Max Barry

40. “Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.” ― Toba Beta

Funny Quotes About Being Stupid

41. “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” ― Elbert Hubbard

42. “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” ― Abraham Lincoln

43. “Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.” ― Luis Bunuel

44. “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.” ― Groucho Marx

45. “If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?” ― Lily Tomlin

46. “If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.” ― Henny Youngman

47. “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” ― Margaret Mead

48. “Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.” ― Mark Twain

49. “I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.” ― Winston Churchill

50. “If two wrongs don’t make a right, try three.” ― Laurence J. Peter

51. “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” ― Albert Einstein

52. “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” ― Steve Martin

53. “It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.” ― Thomas Sowell

54. “If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

Ignorance and Stupidity Quotes

55. “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” ― Mark Twain

56. “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

57. “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” ― Benjamin Franklin

58. “People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true, or because they are afraid it might be true.” ― Terry Goodkind

59. “Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.” ― Brandon Sanderson

60. “Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.” ― Garth Nix

61. “Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.” ― Paul David Tripp

62. “People think it’s all about misery and desperation and death and all that sh*te, which is not to be ignored, but what they forget is the pleasure of it. Otherwise we wouldn’t do it. After all, we’re not f*cking stupid. At least, we’re not that f*cking stupid.” ― Irvine Welsh

Stupidity Quotes about Love

63. “Love is being stupid together.” ― Paul Valery

64. “I stop paying attention because as much as I love beauty, I hate stupidity, and seeing the two combined pisses me off.” ― Tucker Max

65. “That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they’re not much to look at, or even if they’re sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.” ― J.D. Salinger

66. “Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things.” ― Melissa Marr

67. “Don’t feel stupid if you don’t like what everyone else pretends to love.” ― Emma Watson

68. “People get stupid when they’re in love; people want what they can’t have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.” ― Claudia Gray

69. “Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.” ― Toni Morrison

70. “Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again, I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.” ― Carol Rifka Brunt

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