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The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.
Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
They asked me to go in front of the Reagans. I'm not used to going in front of President Reagan, so we went out behind the Bushes.
His last thought was that it hadn't been stupidity that had allowed his son to enchant him so easily with words. It had been love.
I'm very much known as being the smiley girl, and unfortunately, lightness can be mistaken for stupidity or someone with no depth.
Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.
I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind.
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.
My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
Ultimate stupidity: Mistakenly thinking you will get what you want by complaining about and focusing on exactly what you don't want.
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.
Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.
I have sought you out to cure me.' 'To cure you of what?' 'Of this cursed affliction.' 'I cannot cure stupidity.' Scapegrace frowned.
I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison
General George Patton, General Douglas MacArthur are spinning in their grave at the stupidity of what we're doing in the Middle East.
A mark of stupidity is a belief that one party is totally virtuous and correct on the issues while the other is evil and always wrong.
The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it's not going to go up, don't buy it!
Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.
To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
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.
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.
All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.
People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?
Judging by the the movie's enduring popularity, the message that stupidity is redemption is clearly what a lot of Americans want to hear.
New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.
Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.
I really believe in completely being naive and having high hopes when meeting someone new. I can kind of re-do my stupidity or my naivete.
You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.
Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.
I would be shocked by the lack of security if we were not at Amity headquarters. They often straddle the line between trust and stupidity.
Bad sign when the thought of your x-girlfriend sends you reeling in a search for new adjectives to describe stupidity and thoughtlessness?
If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create!
The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.
It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.
It's not how good you can play when you play good. It's how good you play when you play bad and we can play as bad as anyone in the country.
I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)
In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.
It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.
There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts.
Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.