
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
Source: 1960s, Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 4 : Love in action, Sct. 3
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
Source: 1960s, Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 4 : Love in action, Sct. 3
“The good news is that no one can sincerely admit to be stupid in life.”
“Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous".”
Source: The Name of the Wind
“Is sincerity a virtue by itself? A serial killer has also acted sincerely.”
Oluşmak (To Become) Aphorisms (Pan Publishing House, Istanbul, 2011)
“It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.”
Source: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
Source: The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II
“Obviously this person's a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous.”
Variant: Stupid people are dangerous.
Source: The Hunger Games
“The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.”
Le plus grand danger de la bombe est dans l'explosion de bêtise qu'elle provoque.
Pour Jean Grave, Le Journal (19 Feb 1894)
“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice.”
The Bonhoeffer Reader https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Bonhoeffer_Reader/CNZgAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA766, p. 766
Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), On Stupidity