Cruelty and universal stupidity, dressing in atavistic feathers, glorified by millennia of bookish lies and bloodthirsty stupidity, turn me into something worse, stupider and more terrible than a wild beast. I am not talking about such noble and respectable animals as a dog, horse or cow.
I noticed that a characteristic feature of stupid people who sometimes occupy responsible positions is the ability to quickly make radical decisions on any issue.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Evil comes from human stupidity.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
“Try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric. It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.”
It’s stupid for one person to consider himself better than other people, but it’s even stupider for an entire nation to consider itself better than other nations. And every nation, the majority of every nation, lives in this stupid and harmful sin.
—Leo Tolstoy
It’s stupid for one person to consider himself better than other people, but it’s even stupider for an entire nation to consider itself better than other nations. And every nation, the majority of every nation, lives in this stupid and harmful sin.
—Leo Tolstoy
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality.
The more stupid one is, the clearer one is.
Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself.
Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality.
The more stupid one is, the clearer one is.
Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself.
Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
A person who knows he’s going to die in thirty minutes won’t do anything vain, stupid or, most of all, bad in that last half hour. But isn’t the half-century that might separate you from death the same as thirty minutes?
—Leo Tolstoy
The more you feel the urge to speak, the greater the risk that you’ll say something stupid.
—Leo Tolstoy
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
—Voltaire
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
—Nikolai Gogol
The kinder and more rational a person is, the more he recognizes himself in others. A stupid, unkind person thinks that all other people are alien to him. A wise and kind person knows that the most valuable thing within him is also within every other person.
—Leo Tolstoy
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can be sincere and still be stupid.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.
—Carl Jung
I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.
—Blaise Pascal
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
—Albert Einstein
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
—Voltaire
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
—Voltaire
If you do not come to Christ, you must either continue still weary and burdened, or, which is worse, you must return to your old dead sleep, to a state of stupidity; and not only so, but you must be everlastingly wearied with God’s wrath.
—Jonathan Edwards
Very smart people are not evil. Evilness a priori implies limitation and stupidity.
—Taras Shevchenko
A stupid person does not become good, and a good person can easily become bad.
—Taras Shevchenko
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
—Nikolai Gogol