You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
I'd rather spend my time with grape growers than actors. In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.
The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
I get amazed, I can't look at it but about 10 seconds, at these politicians dancing around this, dancing around this, I'm trying to find a correct name for it, this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men.
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
People get a kick out of my stupidity.
Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile.
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
You can't legislate against stupidity.