stupidity Quotes

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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“I don’t want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can’t even see it,...”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

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“And on and on it went— that duet between the dumb, praying lady and the big, hollow man so full of loving echoes.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It’s the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect—but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

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

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard.”

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

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“I used to think she was quite intelligent, in my stupidity.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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“why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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“Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it’s also, to be honest, a stupid game to play. Even the winners can end up with crippling brain damage. In a lot of ways, hustling is the same.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

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“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”

― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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