Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Don't be stupid. It's not smart.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Fools are not mad folks.

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

Stupidity is much the same all the world over.

Human stupidity is international.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.

It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

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

He's Black Council," I said. "Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered. I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier." Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day.

There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.

There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?’

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.