personal development on Stupidity

The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a p...

Jesus doesn’t just use the shepherd metaphor when he refers to himself as the door. Over and over in the Bible, we are compared to sheep. Some people think it’s heartwarming. But I hate to tell you, i...

"I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you and me, I have come to the conclusion that my guts have sh** for brains."

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heartbeat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of sil...

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”

And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is nothing else but this.

Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.

If you wish to improve be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters.

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

The Hebrew word for “fool” is very close to the Hebrew for “noble,” with only one letter different, and it is sometimes only in the outcome of their lives that the people considered noble by the peopl...

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Bumper stickers—and their counterparts on social media—make Simplicism seem virtuous: “Look at me! I’m a good and brave person for distilling this complex issue down to its essence and righteously tak...

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

The first type of fool in the Bible is the character that might be called the fool proper. Folly in a fallen world is obviously partly relativistic, and we are always wise to say, “Says who?” Differen...

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how t...

Pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

A college professor met his new class on the first day of school. He stood before the students and gave a nice introduction to the class and about himself. Upon completion of his monologue, he looked...

When one tries to increase his knowledge by doing mental gymnastics over books without waiting upon God and looking to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, his soul is plainly in full swing. This will dep...

“I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.”

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is pos...

It is human to err, it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.