C. S. Lewis Quotes

People are just so stupid.

Obstinacy and heat of opinion are the surest proof of stupidity.

Judging people you don't know for things you don't understand is just really stupid.

Are you stupid or did you just take lessons?

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.

The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.

Anything that I don't understand or can't do is stupid.

The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.

The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.

Nobody likes cravens,” he said uncomfortably. “I wish we hadn’t helped him. What if they think we’re craven too?” "You're too stupid to be craven,” Pyp told him. “I am not,” Grenn said. “Yes you are. If a bear attacked you in the woods, you’d be too stupid to run away.” “I would not,” Grenn insisted. “I’d run away faster than you.” He stopped suddenly, scowling when he saw Pyp’s grin and realized what he’d just said.

It's usually easier to rouse stupidity to action than to arouse wisdom to effort, for wisdom sees alternatives while stupidity lacks the imagination to do this. All sinister interests in a country can depend ultimately upon the strength of stupidity.

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.

To be prejudiced is always to be weak

The conflict is not between Christianity and Islam or between East and West - instead, it is between stupid people and other stupid people.

No. Because it's so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?" "And a half," he says.

I agree some people are biased, and I agree that they exist in a world of pure, sheer, raw hatred for anything they don't agree with, but I do believe they're also ignorant. I think they're dumb as skunks. I don't think they've been educated. They haven't the ability to hear and listen to common sense and understand what it is.

It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.

The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale.

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

What? Were you born stupid, or did you just die that way?