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I'm very much inspired by things that anger me. If I see bigotry, stupidity, or injustice on the news, I'm inspired to find a way to make it into something comedic and relatable. Anger inspires me. Stupidity inspires me. My family inspires me. My accountant inspires me. Everything and anything, really.
How can you fight stupidity effectively? The answer is simple: it's not easy.
A wise person keeps the faith and remains hopeful despite the dissemination of stupidity that surrounds them.
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.
Asher Rubin thinks that most people are truly idiots, and that it is human stupidity that is ultimately responsible for introducing sadness into the world. It isn't a sin or a trait with which human beings are born, but a false view of the world, a mistaken evaluation of what is seen by our eyes. Which is why people perceive every thing in isolation, each object separate from the rest. Real wisdom lies in linking everything together-that's when the true shape of all of it emerges.
When the wisdom speaks, be quite and listen! When the stupidity speaks, stand up and leave!
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex.
Only ignorance excuses stupidity
That wasn't love; that was stupidity.
Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know that the earth is not flat but my feet are. I know that space is curved but my brain has been condoned by habit to grow in a straight line. What I call light is my own blend of darkness. What I call a view is my hand-painted trompe-l'oeil. I run after knowledge like a ferret down a ferret hole. My limitations, I call the boundaries of what can be known. I interpret the world by confusing other people's psychology with my own.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.
Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties.
I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.
The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say 'I can't process it' well no you never will stop trying just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?
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.
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.
Only two things are infinite the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former.
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