Funny Stupidity and Foolishness Quotes

These silly and witty sayings give a positive spin to this otherwise touchy subject!

Funny Stupidity and Foolishness Quotes

"Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution."
Anonymous
"Common sense is not a gift. It’s a punishment because you have to deal with everyone who doesn’t have it."
Anonymous
“Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.”
- Alan Dundes
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
- Albert Einstein
“When a stupid man is doing something, he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.”
- Edith Sitwell
"Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it."
Anonymous
“The problem with the world is that everyone does not have a brain, but everyone does have a tongue.”
- Raheel Farooq
“It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don’t say it.”
"A clever person takes notice of everything; a stupid one makes a comment about everything."
- Heinrich Heine
“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.”
- Gustave Flaubert
“The downside of playing dumb is that you sound dumb.”
- Rachel Maddow
“I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.”
- Walt Disney
"The more you know, the dumber you sound to stupid people."
Anonymous
"I prefer not to think before speaking. I like being as surprised as everyone else by what comes out of my mouth."
Anonymous
“If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?”
- Francis Parker Yockey
"Stupid is when you spend 18 hours trying to drown a fish."
Anonymous
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
– Winston S. Churchill
“I am responsible for what I say but I’m not responsible for what you understand.”
Anonymous
“The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but still ‘this nonsense.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
- Mark Twain
“Every man is a d*** fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
― Elbert Hubbard
“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
- Carl Sagan
“Think of how stupid the average person is and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
– George Carlin
“Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you’ll be a mile from them, and you’ll have their shoes.”
- Jack Handey
“There are more airplanes in the water than there are submarines in the sky.”
Anonymous
“If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?”
- Will Rogers
"The dumbest people I know are those who Know It All."
– Malcolm Forbes
“Make yourself look really stupid so you don’t feel bad doing something a little stupid.”
- Mark Hoppus
“What is the only flaw of being intelligent?…that you have to deal with stupid people.”
Anonymous
“If being awesome was a crime, I would be serving a life sentence.”
Anonymous
“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”
– William Shakespeare
“We live in the era of smart phones and stupid people.”
Antonymous
“The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.”
Anonymous
“Scientists say the world is made of protons, neutrons, and electrons. they forgot to mention morons.”
Anonymous
"Stupidity is a talent for misconception."
- Edgar Allan Poe
“On the internet, you can be anything you want. It’s strange that so many people choose to be stupid.”
Anonymous
“Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can’t see.”
"Stupidity is like a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit."
"If Cinderella’s shoe fit perfectly, then why did it fall off?"
“If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?”
– Scott Adams
"Better to keep silent and let people think you are a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Stupidity has a knack of getting its way."
- Albert Camus
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
- A. A. Milne
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
- Plato
“To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.”
- Horace
"There’s nothing more tedious than seeing how a person shows his intellect, especially if there isn’t any."
- Erich Maria Remarque
"Don’t worry about what other people think. They don’t do it very often."
Anonymous
“People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.”
- Alice Walker