Stupidity is knowing and seeing the
truth, but still believing the lies.
Because of many unusual things happening
around us these days, it is time to know
the basic differences between stupidity
and ignorance. Ignorance simply implies
lack of awareness about something; while
stupidity denotesy things but still be
ignorant in some areas of knowledge.
I have learned that avoidable human
misery is more often caused not so much
Stupidity combined with
arrogance and a huge ego will
get you a long way. Chris Lowe
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by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly ignorance about ourselves.
Intelligent people know they are
intelligent. They also know that one
person cannot know all; hence a person
is not stupid simply because he is
ignorant of one thing or another. They
know that, to another intelligent
person, they will not appear stupid in
asking for an explanation of what they
do not know, and so their ignorance on
any particular issue does not become an
embarrassment.
Stupidity is infinitely more
fascinating than intelligence.
Intelligence has its limits
while stupidity has none. Claude
Chabrol
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I have also learned that stupidity is
much the same all the world over. A
stupid person's ideas and feelings may
confidently be inferred from those which
prevail in the person’s surrounding and
not so with those whose opinions and
feelings come from their own nature and
faculties. I have also noticed that many
of us always do the most intelligent
thing after we have tried every stupid
alternative and none of them have
worked.
We are in danger of destroying ourselves
by our greed and stupidity. Nothing in
the entire world is more dangerous than
sincere ignorance and conscientious
stupidity. Strange as it may seem, no
amount of learning can cure stupidity,
and formal education positively
fortifies it.