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• A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

  Joseph Addison

  War, Stupid, Believe

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• Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wise, Silly, May

  "Culture and Value". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, p. 39e, 1980.

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• There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

  Frank Zappa

  Education, Witty, Stupid

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• Man is the inventor of stupidity.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Funny, Stupid, Men

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• artificial intellegance is no match for natural stupidity

  Albert Einstein

  Natural, Artificial

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• Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity.

  Max Beerbohm

  Golf, Expression, Perfect

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1967). “More”, Freeport, N.Y : Books for Libraries Press

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• Stupidity is not a crime.

  Alexei Navalny

  Crime

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• Great men honour intelligence, little men honour stupidity.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Littles, Honour

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• Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

  Oscar Wilde

  Money, Clever, Stupid

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.51, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

  William Congreve

  Stupid People, Growing, Dull

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.155

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• 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)

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• There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

  Henry Adams

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Average

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• I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Stupid, Silly, Thinking

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.94, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Stupid, Mean

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• There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Latter, Workers, Brighter

  Bertolt Brecht (1964). “Baal, A Man's a Man, and The Elephant Calf: Early Plays by Bertolt Brecht”

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• RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Military, Intellect, Clouded

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.175, 谷月社

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• Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.

  Avital Ronell

  Moral, Pathology, Default

  Avital Ronell (2002). “Stupidity”, p.3, University of Illinois Press

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• To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't.

  Primo Levi

  Stupid, Heart, Brain

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• Mitt der Dummheit k a« mpfen G o« tter selbst vergebens. Even the gods themselves struggle in vain against stupidity.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Struggle, Vain

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• Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.

  Christoph Martin Wieland

  People, Sublime, Quality

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• Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Wicked, Demand, Deeds

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 87, 1799.

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• When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

  Edith Sitwell

  Frustration, Thinking, Envy

  Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.172, A&C Black

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• She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Odds, Worry, World

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.225, A&C Black

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• The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

  Alexander Pope

  Education, Wisdom, Stupid People

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 612

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• The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to exclaim, "Est il possible?"-"Is it possible?"

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Stupid, Son, Law

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 758, History of England, Volume I, Chapter IX, 1922.

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