Idiot Quotes

• Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Quoted in Albert B. Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography (1912)

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• No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

  Mark Twain

  Evidence, Amount

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• [He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Crazy

  "Fictional character: Rufus T. Firefly". "Duck Soup", www.imdb.com. 1933.

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• The worst kind of idiot is the one who doesn't think they're an idiot.

  Jeff Garlin

  Thinking, Kind, Worst

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• Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mistake, Failure, Philosophical

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• Who's the bigger idiot, the idiot or the idiot who gets fooled by the idiot?

  Woody Allen

  Bigger, Fooled

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• There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots.

  Warren Buffett

  Creativity, People, Three

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• There are two hundred million idiots, manipulated by a million intelligent men.

  Pablo Escobar

  Intelligent, Men, Two

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• Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

  James Cook

  Independent, Genius, Thinker

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• Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technique, Moral, Dignity

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• We thank God that our enemies are idiots.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Enemy, Thank God, Dictator

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• Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Plot, World

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• She's an idiot. She's looking at life through a selfish, lusty haze.

  Joy Browne

  Selfish, Women, Haze

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• For many people the reason why they're idiots is not necessarily that their brain doesn't work well, it's that they got in a terrible pattern.

  Joe Rogan

  Mma, People, Brain

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  What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

  William Shakespeare

  Eras, Blind, Terrible

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• It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

  Scott Adams

  Dilbert, Danger, Closed Minded

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.439, Penguin

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• Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

  Anton Chekhov

  Life, Success, Morning

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• A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread.

  Leonardo Sciascia

  Regret, Nice, Stupidity

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  Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Powerful, Hatred, Tribes

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.128, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Perfect, Acting, Actors

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• We're being lead by an idiot with a crayon.

  Eoin Colfer

  Crayon

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• The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Cynical, Doctrine

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Notes On Democracy”, p.76, Knopf

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  Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Carlin on Campus". Documentary, Comedy, 1984.

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• As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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