Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.
It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.
The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.
Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.
Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.
I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.
It saddens me to see the reality-television shows that are getting so much fanfare that are a celebration of stupidity and the degradation of women. And those women are consistently wearing too short, too tight dresses. I hope the trend of aging gracefully returns.
But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
Tourism is the march of stupidity.
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".
Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Communism has failed; capitalism has failed; common sense has failed; now has to fail stupidity.
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.
It's a shame stupidity isn't painful.