Stupidity

Stupidity

Stupidity is a lack of intelligence, understanding, reason, wit, or sense. It may be innate, assumed, or reactive - "being 'stupid with grief' as a defence against psychological trauma", a state marked with "grief and despair...making even simple daily tasks a hardship."

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Famous quotes containing the word stupidity:

    “Someone said: “I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.””
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “Nobody likes to offer stupidity as an excuse.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.”
    —Octave Mirbeau (1850–1917)