Stupidity Quotes (6)

Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do, but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
Scribbled by Einstein on a letter received during a visit to England (1933) from a man who suggested that gravity meant that as the world rotated people were sometimes upside down, horizontal, or at 'left angles' and that perhaps, this disorientation explained why people do foolish things like falling in love.
In Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffmann (editors.), Einstein: The Human Side (1981), 56.
See also:  |  Gravitation (5)  |  Love (25)

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Philistine: A Periodical of Protest (Sep 1906), 23, No. 4, 97.
See also:  |  Genius (52)

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.
In Lily Splane, Quantum Consciousness (2004), 309
See also:  |  Intelligence (30)

Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. … And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.
A Modern Utopia (1904, 2006), 49.
See also:  |  Device (2)  |  Remedy (12)  |  Resource (2)  |  Science (433)  |  Servant (3)  |  Utopia (3)

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Anonymous
In Lily Splane, Quantum Consciousness (2004), 310
See also:  |  Genius (52)

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.
In Lily Splane, Quantum Consciousness (2004), 309
See also:  |  Doubt (24)  |  Intelligence (30)

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