Gayle Lynds Quotes

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

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

And that's what I liked about it, because they are, in the beginning, your little beautiful stock figures, who then make a decision to preserve their futures, but the decision they make isn't completely right, and it destroys their futures.

I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be.

Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

When you're 20, we all make stupid and impulsive decisions.

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

I was very young. I thought I knew a lot and I really didn't. I trusted the wrong people.

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.

I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.

Sometimes ruin comes for lack of judgment.