Ad-Rock Quotes

Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a source that would never run out.

Hard to believe there was ever a world leader as dumb as Donald Trump. Can't spell, can't read, has never managed anything approaching an original thought. His brain is like a radio playing at top volume, but between stations.

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.

To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't.

Let's face it: Bush is just dim.

General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. [...] It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. [...] It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.

The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.

Has the mathematical abilities of a Clydesdale.

There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential knowledge contained in man's environment. To cope with this diversity, man's perception, his memory, and his thought processes early become governed by strategies for protecting his limited capacities from the confusion of overloading. We tend to perceive things schematically, for example, rather than in detail, or we represent a class of diverse things by some sort of averaged "typical instance.

A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.

Know that for the human mind there are certain objects of perception which are within the scope of its nature and capacity; on the other hand, there are, amongst things which actually exist, certain objects which the mind can in no way and by no means grasp: the gates of perception are closed against it.

The overriding problem with our country, and our world in general, is that we are, in large part, managed by incompetents. Most of these are men who have spent their lives seeking power rather than themselves.

In the midst of all this great variety of subjects, an individual cannot attain to perfection in each, because it is scarcely in his power to take in and comprehend the general theories of them.

Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.

Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers.

Human intellect is incurably abstract.