Trego's Mountain Ear

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and
conscientious stupidity. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth. -Gustave Flaubert

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. -George Carlin

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. -Albert Einstein

Albrecht’s Law – Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity. -Karl Albrecht

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not. -Anatole France

Stupidity makes you dangerous-to yourself and everyone around you. -Jennifer Lee Carrell

Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid. -John Wayne

Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless. -Gustave Flaubert

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity. -Konrad Adenauer

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. -P. J. O’Rourke

In politics stupidity is not a handicap. -Napoleon Bonaparte

Stupidity is a blockage in the ability to receive, integrate and transmit new signals. -Robert Anton Wilson

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. -Oscar Wilde

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity. -Thomas Sowell

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothing can beat teamwork. -Edward Abbey

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. -Voltaire

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. -Robert A. Heinlein