stupidity

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

There's a thin line between genius and bottom-barrel stupidness. I hover delicately on a tightrope between the two, wondering where I'll land if I'll ever fall.

Brave? Or stupid?"Roger shrugged. "I've never been quite sure where brave stopped and stupid began, myself.

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

There's no point in arguing with an idiot - save for exposing their stupidity in their own words.

But the more I think about it, the more I think PC words are a crock of shit. If I want to describe something using a stupid word, I should.

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.

So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature.

That such a slave as this should wear a sword,Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwainWhich are too intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passionThat in the natures of their lords rebel,Being oil to the fire, snow to the colder moods,Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaksWith every gale and vary of their mastersKnowing naught, like dogs, but following.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

Many of us are literally prone to believing the most blatantly nonsensical untruths. There are some opinions and some beliefs so incredibly moronic, you actually feel stupid for not believing them; and it's probably because in giving the benefit of the doubt you self-doubt, you convince yourself into lame passivity and blind acceptance, you tell yourself, 'Maybe I'm just missing something here.

Though you can live for as much as you like, but your longevity is stupidity if you were leading a worthless life.

I'll make a book on learning how to be a complete moron someday, and I'm sure no one will buy it, because everyone will have mastered that already by the time I gather enough moronism to process it into digestible upgrade instructions for your average village cyborg-idiot.

If automating everything makes people lazier and lazier, and laziness leads to stupidity, which it does for most people, judging by the current content circulating the social networks everywhere, except North Korea, where they don__ have any internet to speak of - at some point the Japanese robots, for which a market niche is currently being developed, with no concerns on how they should be designed to act in society or outside it - will have no choice, but to take everything over, to preserve us from ourselves_

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.