51 Human Stupidity and Arrogance Quotes

Stupidity can be defined as lack of reasoning, sense, ignorance and intelligence. Arrogance can be defined as someone who is full of self-importance. An arrogant person believes he is the most important and self-worth person and brags about him day and night. Stupidity and arrogance quotes will give you a reason to think in a broader sense.

 

Human Stupidity and Arrogance Quotes

51 Human Stupidity and Arrogance Quotes

1. "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell R

2. "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." - George Carlin

3. "It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change." - Confucius

4. "One should commit no stupidity twice; the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough." - Jean-Paul Sartre

5. "Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity." - Frank Leahy 

6. "Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity." - Michel de Montaigne

7. "It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins." - Jerome Cady

8. "In politics stupidity is not a handicap." - Napoleon Bonaparte

9. "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King Jr. 

10. "Insanity is just what we call stupidity when it doesn't make sense." - Josh Lieb 

11. "Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice." - Adolf Hitler

12. "Stupidity is something unshakable, nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it, it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant." - Gustave Flaubert

13. "Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way." - Chris Lowe

14. "No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it." - Fernando Pessoa

15. "Life is hard, but it's harder if you're stupid." - Michael Crichton

16. "Ignorance can be educated. Crazy can be medicated. But there is no cure for stupid." - Anonymous

17. "Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it."- Stephen Vizinczey

18. "Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be hell of a population drop." - Laurell K. Hamilton

19. "Man has made use of his intelligence. He invented stupidity." - Remy de Gourmont 

20. "The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom." - Francois-Marie Arouet

21. "When ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace." - Dalai Lama 

22. "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

23. "Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish." - Euripides

24. "If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?" - Francis Parker Yockey

25. "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." - Friedrich Nietzsche

26. "Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity." - Rabindranath Tagore

27. "It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid." - George Bernard Shaw 

28. "If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism." - Oscar Wilde

29. "Life is hard, but it's harder if you're stupid." - Michael Crichton  

30. "Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most." - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

31. "Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it." - Benjamin Franklin

32. "The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about." - Wayne Dyer

33. "Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness." - John Sandford

34. "There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity." - Robertson Davies

35. "Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless." - Gustave Flaubert

36. "The two most common elements in the Universe are Hydrogen and stupidity." - Harlan Ellison

37. "Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results." - Margaret Atwood

38. "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 Dostoyevsky

39. "Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education." - Bertrand Russell

40. "Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match." - Karl Kraus

41. "The only way to comprehend what mathematician's means by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity." - Voltaire

42. "Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance." - William Gaddis

43. "When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty." - George Bernard Shaw 

44. "Stupidity has a knack of getting its way." - Albert Camus

45. "Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives." - Ayn Rand

46. “Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid.” - Ricky Gervais

47. "One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork." - Edward Abbey

48. “There are intelligent bigots and stupid bigots. What they all have in common is the absence of a heart.” - Marty Rubin

49. “In the end, it’s fear, greed and stupidity that will destroy us.” - Jeffrey A. White

50. "Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match." - Karl Kraus

51. “There is a fine line between stubbornness and stupidity as well as intensity and insanity.” - Brittany Burgunder

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