Nine main signs of a stupid person. Best quotes about stupidity

It is better to remain silent and look like a cretin than to break the silence and destroy any suspicion of it. Common sense and dementia - one does not cancel the other. Especially for a representative of the stronger sex who is older.

Cowardice is not dishonor. Recklessness is real disgrace. You should not tremble from anything, except for real threats. Refusal to agree with the threat is the most important of all follies.

If I communicate with you, then I turn into a fool.

I have identified the cause of your suffering. This is your excessive decency. Every foolishness on the planet is committed with just such a look on the face. Break into smiles, sir. Laugh.

There are only a couple of eternal matters: the Universe and stupidity. However, I don’t have complete confidence in the Universe.

Women need cuteness to be desirable to men; It is unreasonable for beautiful ladies to be attracted to men.

A little extravagance is a blessing from God, but it should not be used to excess.

Reason is capable of correcting any stupidity, but there is no such intelligence that, no matter what, could not be disfigured by stupidity.

What people usually call fate is, in essence, only the totality of the stupidities they have committed.

Stupidity does not always make a person evil, but anger always makes a person stupid.

Miser pays twice. A stupid person pays three times. The sucker pays constantly.

If you hammered the joint, And didn’t make a heel... Congratulations: you are an asshole, Life is not sweet for you.

To succeed in this world, it is not enough to just be stupid - you also need to have good manners.

The sleep of reason gives birth to monsters.

Entry in the medical card: “There are no mental illnesses. Just a fool.”

Poor wisdom is often the slave of rich stupidity.

You are so stupid that I don’t even need to insult you.

Sometimes I am convinced that stupidity is shaped like a triangle and that if you multiply eight by eight you get madness or a dog.

I thought you had exhausted all your stupidity, but you continue to surprise me.

Stupidity is the most forgivable of vices, for it has no taint of malice.

Is being a fool a disease or not? It would be good if it were a disease: there would be hope for healing.

A smart person won't tell, a fool won't guess...

If you argue with an idiot, he will obviously do the same...

Don't talk nonsense - the enemy is listening!

Only a truly good woman can do a truly stupid thing.

Fools are people who are always right.

I make plans in the morning and do stupid things in the afternoon.

Given the stupidity of most people, the widely held view will be more stupid than intelligent.

Limited people... do stupid things much less than smart people.

Every stupidity has its own meaning!

Stupid people are everywhere... But if they are around you... That means you are in their authority.

Lord Goring. Often it's the same thing.

I thought you were a fool, but you are completely crazy!

They say that if a person is bitten by a vampire, then he himself becomes a vampire....so why do I have the feeling that everyone has been bitten by sheep???

There are no stupid questions, there are only stupid people.

We must say thank you to fools, they make us look smart.

The human brain is 80% fluid. For many - from the brake

Why should I be nervous because God has deprived someone of intelligence?

Stupidity is the mother of crime, but fathers are often geniuses.

Stupidity does not free you from the need to think.

I've always been lucky with assholes - it's like some kind of win-win lottery)).

There is nothing stupider than a life in which not a single stupidity has been committed...

Then I was very weak, very proud, like all weak people, and very stupid, like all proud people.

You shouldn't do stupid things even out of boredom.

Many would say that heroism is... stupidity. Do something that, on second thought, you wouldn't do. Because it's not in your best interest.

Give way to the fool! works especially well on city streets)

Stupidity never crosses borders: wherever it steps, there is its territory.

This is not stupidity. It's stupid that Charlie Chaplin came second in the Charlie Chaplin clone competition in Germany.

Life is not enough to pay attention to stupid people...

Lady Chiltern. Do you call this mind? In my opinion, this is stupidity.

He took the stupidity to the master: “Can’t it be converted into wisdom?” The master replied: “there will still be some.”

Intelligence is a disgusting thing. A person without a brain is absolutely confident in the high level of his development. A smart person is well aware of what an idiot he is, in essence.

In the stupidity of a woman is the highest bliss of a man.

A journey into stupidity will certainly turn into a hymn to intelligence.

Sometimes stupidity is disguised as kindness, and sometimes as honesty - when suddenly you feel the urge to blurt out old secrets, say who knows what, spilling from empty to empty...

A woman is an incomprehensible and stupid creature, but she is funny and sweet; with her stupidity she seasons and sweetens the dreary importance of the male mind.

It may sound stupid, but it is stupid things that are remembered best.

The more stupid things I do, the more popular I become.

“Stop being stupid! Do not say stupid things! This is all nonsense! How often have you heard these phrases in your life? Have you ever repeated them to anyone? I wonder if everyone has the same understanding of what stupidity is? On the one hand, everything seems to be obvious: stupidity is a person’s action or words that do not correspond to the context of what is happening. Can a smart person do stupid things?

Let's look at this issue from a psychological point of view. To begin with, I would like to tell one parable.

A man came to the teacher and asked: “What should I do to become wise?” The teacher replied: “Go out and stay there.” And it was raining outside. And the man was surprised: “How can this help me? But who knows, everything could be…” He left the house and stood there, and the rain poured and poured. The man was completely wet, the water penetrated under his clothes. Ten minutes later he returned and said: “I stood there, what now?” The teacher asked him: “What did you understand there in the rain?” The man replied: “Do you understand? I realized that I looked like a fool!” The master said: “This is a great discovery! This is the beginning of wisdom! Now you can begin. You are on the right road. If you know that you are a fool, then the change has already begun.”

What is necessary for wisdom?

In practice, to begin your journey to the heights of wisdom, you should admit your stupidity. We are used to calling people stupid only because their motives for their actions are incomprehensible to us. To evaluate, we need to process the information that we are able to perceive. It is enough for a stupid person to receive a little information, and he will be confident in his conclusions and rightness.

No one wants to admit that they are stupid, so they will furiously prove to others that they are right. A smart person always leaves room for doubt.

Basing your behavior on far from complete data about the nature of the situation is a common property of the human mind. We assimilate and perceive only part of the information, but are able to grasp the connection between events and objects, highlighting significant and insignificant details and features. Fools do the same, but they do not learn from the past, or they extract small, insignificant experience.

Fools are free from doubt.

I will paraphrase one statement: “conviction is the last thing for which I am ready to give my life, because I may be mistaken.” In a situation with fools, education does not enlighten, but aggravates, becoming the foundation of self-confidence, the shield and sword of stupidity. On the other hand, ignorance can be considered gunpowder for stupidity.

How a smart person gets into stupid situations

I would like to make it clear now that this is not about the “notorious IQ”. We are now talking more about the social aspect of behavior. It just so happens that man is a social being; historically we grew up in tribes and communities. Therefore, imitation is one of the learning tools. We spy on others and adopt their behavior. But if we remove the critical attitude towards the process from this chain, we are guaranteed to get stupidity.

We can create a “stupid situation” at any moment. It is enough for us to begin to demonstrate some behavior that others do not expect from us now, or to begin to say something that is not what they want to hear. And woo a la! Similar situations are repeated every day!

There are only fools around

You think one thing, your interlocutor thinks exactly the opposite, and each of you considers the other, if not a complete idiot, then a half-wit! Don't believe me? Yes, read the comments to any article on the Internet! How many stupid people have you counted? 😉 I won’t be surprised that someone will consider me, the author of this article, stupid. If you knew how much I had to listen to for my spelling mistakes 😉

Your bosses - with rare exceptions - consider you not only complete idiots, but something like that. Notice how many times they repeat their instructions to you: 3, 4, 5? This is not only because before you there was a person in your place who needed it (but once is enough for you!). Your boss simply considers everyone stupid, half-witted, and in general, only he understands what and how! What about the boss himself? Well, who put such an “idiot” in this position? Well, where is universal justice? Why are there only fools around me? Is this a familiar picture? Then congratulations, you are a fool!

So what happens, what does it lead to? You know, dividing the world into black and white, right and wrong, smart people and fools is also utter stupidity.

If a person in his heart or deliberately calls himself a fool, or hints at his mental incompetence, then know that a real fool will not do this. Most likely, a smart person made a mistake and repents, having learned a lesson. A stupid cap allows an intelligent person to be invulnerable, but a fool will be embarrassed by the cap; he adores royal robes.

What's wrong with stupidity?

By calling someone else's behavior stupid, we devalue this behavior, as if it is unworthy of time, rank, age, or status. Indeed, we are so concerned about our reputation, we want to grow up and become serious so quickly that we stop doing all sorts of things, including those that someone arrogantly calls stupid. And then we will never get back those days when we could do something that no one expected from us. All that remains is to regret.

You know, I once read one thing in a book suicide letter seriously ill elderly woman, now I can’t repeat it, but I remembered these lines

“The only thing I regret in my life is that I did too few stupid things. If I had the opportunity to repeat my life now, I would do a lot more of them.”

Stupidity or not stupidity?

In conclusion, I want to remember one more real story, which I was lucky enough to witness. A woman with a very young and lively voice asked for a meeting on the phone because she was experiencing certain life difficulties. When we met, I was very surprised, because she was a woman of near-retirement age, but she looked amazingly lively, she was beaming all over, like someone in love. It turned out that after 19 years of not the most successful marriage, of which for the last 10 years she did not live with her husband, but remained married, when she had already buried herself as a woman many years ago, she suddenly met a man of her own age. Based on her description, he also seems to have romantic feelings for her. He is from another city, and she had a lot of doubts and fears about their possible continuation of the relationship. They both did not dare to admit their feelings, both were in doubt. The woman then said: “I'm afraid! What will people think, what will they say? How can I say something myself?” I asked her, “Do you seem to be happy with this man?” She replied: “Yes!” Then I couldn’t find anything better than to add: “You know, with all due respect to your age and how it suits you now, You've lived enough to now have the right to do stupid things!»

The “cruelty” of a man of knowledge is better than the “kindness” of a fool.
The loyalty of a coward or a fool is not a support for the master. Visakhadatta
All fools are eager to ridicule someone. Pope A.
All fools are stubborn, and all stubborn people are stupid. Gracian y Morales
A person loses everything over the years: youth, beauty, health, impulses of ambition. And only one stupidity never leaves people. Ariosto L.
The fool thought that wisdom would come to him over the years.
Stupidity tends to see other people's vices and forget about your own. Cicero
A fool can be recognized by two signs: he talks a lot about things that are useless to him, and he speaks out about things that he is not asked about. Plato
Fools notice only people's faults and do not pay attention to their virtues. They are like flies that try to land only on the inflamed part of the body. Abul-Faraj bin Harun.
The person who always remains the same is stupid. Voltaire
He is stupid who does not recognize fools, and even more stupid is he who, having recognized them, does not leave them. Dangerous in superficial communication, they are destructive in trusting intimacy. Gracian y Morales
It is a fool who, among the dancers, starts dancing himself. Lucilius
If a wise man falls among fools, he should not expect honor from them, and if a fool defeats a wise man with his chatter, then there is nothing surprising in this, for a stone can split a diamond. Saadi
Just as dogs and pigs do not need gold and silver, so a fool does not need wise words. Daniil Sharpener
Anyone who is stupid and understands this is no longer stupid. Publius
He who is stupid does not benefit from the advice of a wise man. Publius
Whoever gets involved with a stupid, vicious wife does not marry a woman - he gets into trouble. Saadi
The wise man is drawn to goodness and peace; the fool is drawn to war and strife. Rudaki
Lies and deceit are the refuge of fools and cowards. Chesterfield F.
A wise man is happy, content with little, but for a fool nothing is enough; that's why almost all people are unhappy. La Rochefoucauld
The wise man knows how to act even where he has no experience; A fool also makes mistakes in what he has learned. John of Damascus
There is nothing stupider than the desire to always be smarter than everyone else. La Rochefoucauld
You don’t have to be ignorant, but sometimes it’s not bad to pretend to be ignorant. There is no point in being wise with a fool, or prudent with a madman; Speak to everyone in their language. Gracian y Morales
It is not words, but misfortune that is the teacher of fools. Democritus
It is not the one who does not know who is stupid, but the one who does not want to know. Skovoroda G. S.
No one is happy among fools, and no one among wise men is unhappy. Cicero
One of the unpleasant properties of our time is that those who have confidence are stupid, and those who have any imagination and understanding are filled with doubts and indecision. Bertrand Russell
Wit often borders on complete stupidity. Emile Zola
Praise is good for a smart person, but bad for a stupid person. Petrarch
He who admits himself to be a fool has the right to be considered a sage, and whoever insists that he is a sage is precisely a fool. Brant S.
The bee, having stuck its steel sting, does not know that it is missing. Likewise, when fools release poison, they do not understand what they are doing.
A wise man benefits more from his enemies than a fool from his friends. Gracian y Morales
A condescending attitude towards stupidity is inherent in every intelligent person. Abu-l-Faraj
A wise man fights against old age, a fool becomes its slave. Epictetus
Stubbornness and excessive ardor in an argument are the surest sign of stupidity. Michel Montaigne
Frequent and loud laughter is a sign of stupidity and bad upbringing. Chesterfield

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I am a humanistically inclined person, so I am sure that stupidity is a temporary state of mind, something like infantile immaturity. However, I am unlikely to be mistaken if I assume that, due to their own stupidity, many people do not live as fun as they would like. And even more so to their loved ones.

But let's figure out what exactly stupidity is and how it can prevent not only those who deal with such a person from enjoying life, but also himself.

1. A fool talks only about himself

Any communication involves dialogue, and a mature person usually understands that this is a way of exchanging information. Exchange, not planting. It happens, of course, that a person needs to speak out when something has happened - it happens to everyone. But if we are talking about a pathological solo, when the interlocutor does not have the opportunity to get a word in, much less say anything, we are dealing with a fool.

And don't talk to me about the narcissistic personality. All that matters in this case is that the person did not understand that listening is an important resource in the process of gaining life experience. In addition, this quality is very valuable in friendly communication. And if I’m the only one listening, why not someone more interesting? There are a lot of smart lecturers now.

2. There are a lot of people, they are loud

Let me make a reservation right away: there are cases of special, loud charisma - but in such cases questions do not arise like “Or maybe he’s just a fool?” I'm not talking about them, but about those stupid people who often substitute intensity for the lack of depth and meaning.

Imagine: a restaurant, dim lights, people talking, someone working on a laptop, someone having a quiet romantic meeting. Here and there the sound increases slightly: they laugh, greet those who have come... And suddenly, among this cozy noise, there is the annoying voice of a lady who tells her interlocutor the details of her personal life. And no one present can stand aside.

The rules of etiquette, like the instructions for using a kettle, are in many ways foolproof. Demonstrations of the fool in yourself

We don’t want to listen, especially since it’s not interesting, stupid, flat... But this is how our brain works: we are forced to pay attention to sharp sounds, because life may depend on it. And now the entire restaurant is dedicated to the details of the divorce...

The lucky ones with a laptop are lucky - they have headphones and, glancing sideways at the violator of the sound mode, they rush to untangle the wiring. The couple quickly pays and runs away: everything is just beginning for them, and other people’s divorces are an extremely inappropriate topic. The lady orders more wine and gets even louder. And those who sit on the street terrace have already heard about her stupidity...

The rules of etiquette involuntarily come to mind. They, like the instruction manual for the kettle, are in many ways foolproof. Demonstrations of the fool in oneself.

3. A fool ignores the other person's needs.

Is he interested? Isn't he tired? Maybe he needs to step away, but he just can’t find a suitable break? In one breath, such a person fills the entire space. It can be especially difficult for sensitive people who are afraid of offending or being inappropriate.

The lack of need for feedback indicates an infantile confidence in oneself being right. Such interlocutors are like a child not yet endowed with empathy who cannot understand that his mother is tired of dragging him on a sled for the eighteenth kilometer. So, on the one hand, they seem to make it clear: “If you don’t like something, just say it.” On the other hand, yeah, try it, tell me. Paying the bill for your grievances - thank you, not today.

4. A stupid person is afraid of everything

I won’t go there - that’s where it is. I won’t go here - it’s there. However, the constant search for a zone of safety and comfort interferes with evolution. Any living mind of this evolution is hungry and finds ways to either independently come to terms with its own fears or seek help. It's stupid to let fears control your life.

There is also the other side of the coin - when a person rushes into battle without weighing the risks and without comparing them with his own strengths. How many stupid things have been committed on this courage! But this second type of “headless horsemen” is still closer to me than the waiters who fear everything.

By performing some action, a person gains experience, even a negative one, and some wisdom. And what experience and wisdom does a person have who stays within four walls and, out of boredom, experiments only with finding the best TV channel?..

5. A fool does not doubt his own attitudes.

In my opinion, this is the height of stupidity. Look at any field of science to see how ideas have changed over time. Something was considered true, undeniable, and then one discovery overturned the entire system of knowledge and past beliefs turned into dense delusions in one day.

In addition, rigid thinking, when a person does not know how to be flexible and take into account new knowledge, is a direct path to Alzheimer's. This is what modern research says. But who knows, maybe they'll change their minds...

6. A stupid person divides things into black and white.

Categorical attitudes, especially coupled with stubbornness, are another sign of stupidity. If you missed a turn, you have topographic cretinism. And that’s it, you will remain like this for the rest of your life. Failure to recognize undertones, peculiarities of context and situation is certainly not characteristic of smart people.

This text is an example of such a division. Dividing people into fools and smart ones is very stupid. After all, each person has his own story and experience, which led to the fact that at this stage of life a person speaks only about himself, does not check with the interlocutor, or is captured by fears.

Each of us can sometimes behave stupidly, so the best thing we can do is to pay attention to our inner life and give maximum goodwill to the world around us.