Gustave Flaubert Quotes

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

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.

One of the main faults of a fool is that he never changes his mind.

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

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

Stupidity is much the same all the world over.

It’s stupid, and you can’t fix stupid

Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.

Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

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?

Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.

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.

Wishers were ever fools.

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?’

From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.

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.

It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.

I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."