25 result(s) for Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Stupidity.
"Against stupidity we ourselves are helpless."
"Stupidity is twofold. It is silence when it is proper to speak, and speech when it is proper to be silent."
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
"The stupidest of men is he who applauds the worst and most vulgar parts of his writings."
"Stupidity presents itself in the form of frankness, and is thus disarming."
"The cheaper kind of pride seems to consist in setting up your own ego as an object of admiration."
"The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to be strong on the very point where he is weak."
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"To fight against a prejudice, you must be armed with a great power of knowledge."
"It is a common weakness of mankind to see more easily faults of the mind than those of the body."
"There is no remedy against stupidity. Topography is as useful in this as hydrography in drought."
"Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it."
"Stupidity is an immovable object; you can't deflect it with intelligence."
"Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of his own to be proud of, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority."
"A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man."
"The degree of intellect necessary to trick us is a very accurate measure of the degree of stupidity of the person tricked."
"Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men."
"Suffering is the direct and immediate object of life. The destruction of suffering is the fundamental goal."
"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness in the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice."
"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in."
"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free."
"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."
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"Stupidity is a form of vice."
"Compassion is the basis of morality."
"Stupidity is an inherent quality and not something that can be corrected."
"Men are like plants; the goodness and flavour of the fruit comes only with time."
