Quotes about Stupidity

Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation.

Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

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

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

With all due respect, I am against dumb.

Too often that is our problem. We get ourselves into a mess and then try to get ourselves out by some miraculous method. Then we make another mess and try to do the same thing again. We go from one mess to another, never wanting to take responsibility for our own mistakes. What we need to do is to get some balance and start exercising self-discipline. We cannot walk in stupidity and spend our whole life ignoring the consequences. God has given us wisdom, and He expects us to use it. I

Supernatural does not mean methodological stupidity.

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.

If stupidity got us into this, why can't stupidity get us out?