Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
Silliness has two ways of comporting itself; it talks, or is silent. Silent silliness can be borne.
Plain stupidity is the only thing that can give them such assurance.
People surprise you, Frank, with just how f***** stupid they are.
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
On account of the stupidity of some people, or (if talent be a more respectable word), on account of their talent for misconception.
Nobody need be stupid if they try.
Men inspired by prophecy will attempt any foolishness in the knowledge that the fates have ordained their victory.
Judgments, valuations with regard to life, for or against, can ultimately never be true: they only possess value as symptoms, they only come into consideration as symptoms, — in themselves such judgments are follies.
It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.
It may at times be the highest wisdom to simulate folly.
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognise danger when it is close upon you.
