Samuel Johnson Quotes About Stupidity

• Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Stupid, Taken

  On Thomas Sheridan, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 453 (28 July 1763)

• Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Stupidity, Want, Proof

• He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

  Samuel Johnson

  Stupid, People, Intelligence

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.127

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