Stupidity is without anxiety. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Gravity is twin brother to stupidity. [ Bovee ]
Indolence and stupidity are first cousins. [ Rivarol ]
Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius. [ Wieland ]
You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity. [ Barton ]
Sluggishness is stupidity of body, and stupidity sluggishness of spirit. [ Seume ]
Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity the idleness of the mind. [ Seume ]
Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity. [ Johnson ]
Religion is no friend to laziness and stupidity, or to supine and sottish despondencies of mind. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
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, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much; but what in these dull, unimaginative days are the terrors of conscience to the diseases of the liver! [ Carlyle ]
Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity. [ Shenstone ]
Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Many a man who has never been able to manage his own fortune, nor his wife, nor his children, has the stupidity to imagine himself capable of managing the affairs of a nation.
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several - from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy. [ La Bruyere ]
There is a Russian proverb which says that misfortune is next door to stupidity; and it will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, improvidence, or want of application. [ Samuel Smiles ]
Equality is one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler - a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hardearned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity. [ Paulding ]
The unaffected of every country nearly resemble each other, and a page of our Confucius and your Tillotson have scarce any material difference. Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please. [ Goldsmith ]