Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties.

Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really....

You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.

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

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.

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

Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

You can't fix stupid.

There is no patch for stupidity.

I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!

I have been Foolish and Deluded, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.

There are idiots in every crowd.

No amount of intelligence can save you from stupidity.

It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?

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

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

When I looked them in the face, I saw a crowd of imbeciles.

There's no law against stupid - I learned that a long time ago.

Stupidity cannot be controlled, only contained.

Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense

Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.

Mitt der Dummheit k a« mpfen G o« tter selbst vergebens. Even the gods themselves struggle in vain against stupidity.