Stupidity Quotes - Page 13

• The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

  Anton Chekhov

  Funny, Horse, Peasants

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• My theory is that there is a finite amount of intelligence in a family, and you're supposed to gradually transfer it to your children over a period of many years. This is why your parents started to get so stupid just at the time in your life when you were getting really smart.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Children, Smart

  Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.72, Rodale

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• A lot of beautiful people are stupid. There are a tremendous number of idiots who look so good. It's frightening.

  Dean Cain

  Funny, Beautiful, Stupid

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• If anyone knew where they were, I'd send the ISDBB (Incredibly Stupid and Dumb Beyond Belief) award to the two guys who tried to break in to the Ohio penitentiary.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Stupid, Awards

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• What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Country, Men

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy”, p.14, The Floating Press

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• There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, People, Feelings

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.7, Oscar Wilde

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• To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.

  Georges Courteline

  Delight, Fool, Idiot

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• Eisenhower's career demonstrated how it is possible to fool all the people all the time...'I may be stupid,' he once said at a press conference, 'but at least I'm sincere!' Actually, he was neither, but it suited his purpose to play the part of the bumbling man of good will who was 'not an expert in these matters' but somehow would do his best.

  Gore Vidal

  Stupid, Men, Play

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• It's like these people are programmed by Karl Rove. What he wants is to have liberal critics ridicule Bush because he says 'nucular' and 'misunderestimate' and talks with a probably fake Texas accent and so on, because then can come back with the big propaganda apparatus saying, 'See, those elite liberals who run the world and are sitting around drinking French wine and eating quiche don't understand us ordinary guys'; regular guys like the guy working on the assembly line and George Bush, who is going back to his ranch to cut brush.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Drinking, Wine

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• There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.

  Tom Stoppard

  Stupid, Scary, Made

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Real Thing”, p.54, Faber & Faber

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• The Organization of American States couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Stupid, Organization, Boots

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• THESE are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into night and the heart plunges lower than night.

  William Carlos Williams

  Heart, Dark, Night

  Ian D. Copestake, William Carlos Williams (2004). “Rigor of Beauty: Essays in Commemoration of William Carlos Williams”, p.100, Peter Lang

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• We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Stupid, Waste, Wildness

  "The Salt Eaters".

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• I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Love, Business, Stupid

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• I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity. These antitheses are mediated in a higher unity; in our common stupidity.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Clever, Philosophy, Stupid

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• If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.

  Robertson Davies

  Life, Government, Interest

  "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks". Book by Robertson Davies, 1949.

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• It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.

  P. D. James

  Stupid, Fighting, Together

  P. D. James (2011). “Devices and Desires”, p.126, Vintage

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• Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many fools to hide behind his too-appropriate order to assume leadership of the forces of stupidity he has marshalled, or his enemies will unmask him in order to better understand the disease that has produced such a warped and twisted mind.

  Orson Scott Card

  Leadership, Wise, Men

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.157, Tor Science Fiction

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• One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Stupid, Learning, Prejudice

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.255, John Wiley & Sons

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• A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Valleys, Height, Philosopher

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• Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.

  Russell Lynes

  Sympathy, Real, Heart

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• For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Fighting, Government, Knavery

  "The New Freedom".

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• The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

  Walter Bagehot

  People, Cynical, Liberty

  Walter Bagehot (1974). “The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: The political essays”

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• And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.

  Sophocles

  Eye, Thinking, May

  "Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus".

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• The fool knows after he has suffered.

  Hesiod

  Fool, Knows

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.45, University of Michigan Press

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