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  • Examples of human stupidity. Blasphemy in Pakistan can now include spelling errors by children or throwing away a card bearing the name "Muhammad".

    Children   Errors   Names  
  • Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

  • The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

  • 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.

    Hurt   Stupidity   Reason  
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.50, Penguin
  • Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy and human stupidity. These are not things you can overcome with a "methodology" or on a schedule.

    Art   Fighting   Dark  
  • He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

    Love   Country   Peace  
    "Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.
  • The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

    Funny   Life   Stupid  
    Harlan Ellison, Arnie Fenner (2011). “Bugf#ck: The Useless Wit & Wisdom of Harlan Ellison”
  • All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

    Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
  • Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

    Sad   Stupid   Silly  
    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.36, Penguin
  • Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

  • There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe

    Badass   Two   Stupidity  
  • The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

    Funny   Hilarious   Silly  
  • Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.

    Harry S. Truman (2015). “Where the Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman”, p.146, New Word City
  • He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

    "Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.
  • It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.

    "The Nine Satanic Sins". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1987.
  • I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

    Albert Einstein (2003). “Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity”, George Braziller
  • It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.56, St. Martin's Press
  • Never underestimate human stupidity.

    Pittacus Lore (2012). “I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Fallen Legacies”, p.9, Harper Collins
  • If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.

    Lying   Writing   Men  
    "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, ch. 127, 1963.
  • For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

    Aldous Huxley (2003). “Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience”, Crossroad 8 Avenue
  • It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

  • As Albert Einstein once said to me: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity." But what is much more widespread than the actual stupidity is the playing stupid, turning off your ear, not listening, not seeing.

    Stupid   Two   Listening  
    "Gestalt Theory Verbatim". Book by Frederick Salomon Perls, p. 33, 1969.
  • There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears.

    Nature   Ignorance   Mean  
  • The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

  • No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that:a) people whom one had once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid.b) day after day, with unceasing monotony, one is harassed in one's activities by stupid individuals who appear suddenly and unexpectedly in the most inconvenient places and at the most improbable moments.

  • Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations of human stupidity and evil. What is profoundly expressed in it is man's traditional mistrust of the man who is not part of his tribe, that 'other' who speaks a different language, whose skin is a different color, and who participates in mysterious rites and rituals.

    Religious   Men   Color  
  • Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity.

    Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain”, p.7, Booklassic
  • Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press
  • It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. Let me then float an unconventional plea, the inverse of the usual argument. The extinction of Partula is unfair to Partula. That is the conventional argument, and I do not challenge its primacy. But we need a humanistic ecology as well, both for the practical reason that people will always touch people more than snails do or can, and for the moral reason that humans are legitimately the measure of all ethical questions for these are our issues, not nature's.

    "Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Unenchanted Evening", p. 39, 1993.
  • Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

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