Top 1200 Stupidity And Intelligence Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

In life we only try to produce, to win, and enjoy the more we can; in science, to discoverand invent the more we can; in religion, to dominate (or rule over) on the greatest number of people we can; whereas the forming of the character, the further development (or in-dept analysis, "appronfondissement", Fr.) of the faculties of the intelligence ("les facultés de l'intelligence", Fr.), the refinement of the consciousness and of the heart, are considered incidental (or subordinate) things.

Why is the competition always so intense to set new records for maximum stupidity?

At every level there are eight stages of intelligence. You have to turn your brain on to the circuits that are used at that level of intelligence. And there are ways to change the human brain to different stages. The things that change your brain are called 'drugs'.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be in God's mind, and it is really difficult for human intelligence to guess at a divine intelligence. What we usually end up with by this sort of reasoning is to make God the color-sergeant of our army and to make Him as chauvinistic as ourselves.

I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.

No, I'm too busy trying to deflect your Power of Stupidity. But I don't think I'm strong enough.

No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

All humour is critical, you know? You make stupid jokes. I mean, stupidity is an infirmity, isn't it?

Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Oh. Sorry about the muzzle. But it was necessary to protect you from your own stupidity. (Thorn)

The lottery is a tax on ignorance, and all the losers that play the game are paying the price for their stupidity.

It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism seperately, but when they come together there is no hope.

It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.

After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity.

I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.

But then you become closed. Then you start dying as far as your intelligence is concerned because intelligence needs the open sky, the wind, the air, the sun in order to grow, to expand, to flow. To remain alive it needs a constant flow; if it becomes stagnant it becomes slowly slowly a dead phenomenon.

Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.

Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really....

I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.

Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]

Stupidity is what we all have in common as human beings, but some people insist that improving it is their entitlement.

The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.

In Savasana or in meditation, the light of the eyes is drawn towards the lotus of the heart, so that the seat of the intelligence of the head is brought into contact with the seat of the intelligence of the heart, which is called the mind. Thus one passes from the individualistic state of consciousness to the universal state of consciousness. It is the merging of the intellect of the brain with the intellect of the soul.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

We need to look at [Osama bin Laden killing ] as a great victory for the American military and intelligence personnel and for the American people. A lot of bravery and courage displayed by those folks on behalf of all of us. It's also a good day for the administration. I think President [Barack] Obama and his national security team acted on the intelligence when it came in, and they deserve a lot of credit, too.

Everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools that AI may provide, but the eradication of war, disease, and poverty would be high on anyone's list. Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last.

Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity.

...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Here's how my brain works: It's stupidity, followed by self-hatred, and then further analysis.

Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.

Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.

You bomb ISIL. You're not trying to bomb innocent people. And that requires intelligence and confidence in our military to be able to develop the kinds of targets that we need. We're already doing Special Forces, who are going to help us gather that intelligence and help advise and assist and train local forces so that they can go after ISIL in areas like Raqqah and Mosul.

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

It's amazing how much actual chicken sounds lend themselves to stupidity.

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.

When someone isn’t smart enough to express their frustration, they use dirty words. Those are words that describe a lack of intelligence. Smart people don’t use those kind of dirty words, because they find it an insult to their intelligence.

I think that animals aren't less intelligent than humans, they're just of a different intelligence. We have five million smell-sensitive cells in our nose, they have two hundred and fifty million - they can smell emotion. They can smell different types of emotion, they just have another type of intelligence.

Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.

It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

Exploiting the stupidity of the American voter is fun and easy: kinda like squeezing a lemon.