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"I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid."

Banderas, Antonio on stupidity    Share


"It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?"

Booth, William on stupidity    Share

"It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs."

Brown, Sherrill on stupidity    Share

"The Cardinal is at his wit's end -- it is true that he had not far to go."

Byron, Lord on stupidity    Share

"To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on stupidity
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

Einstein, Albert on stupidity
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"The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity."

Ellison, Harlan on stupidity
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"The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -- Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on stupidity    Share

"The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character."

Fairbank, John King on stupidity    Share

"He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir."

Franklin, Benjamin on stupidity
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"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."

Franklin, Benjamin on stupidity
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"We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves."

Gauguin, Paul on stupidity
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"Stupidity is without anxiety."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on stupidity
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"Man is the inventor of stupidity."

Gourmont, Remy De on stupidity
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"There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man."

Hazlitt, William on stupidity    Share

"An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head."

Hoffer, Eric on stupidity
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"Stupidity often saves a man from going mad."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on stupidity    Share

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."

Hubbard, Elbert on stupidity
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"It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so."

Jerome, Jerome K. on stupidity    Share

"Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning."

Kraus, Karl on stupidity    Share

"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."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on stupidity    Share

"Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless."

Proverb, Jewish on stupidity    Share

"Stupidity is a force unto itself."

Proverb, Latin on stupidity
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"If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"

Rogers, Will on stupidity    Share

"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on stupidity    Share

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"It is much easier for good to deal with evil than it is for good to deal with stupidity."

Unknown, Source on stupidity    Share

"Stupidity is the friend of evil."

Unknown, Source on stupidity    Share

"Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it."

Vizinczey, Stephen on stupidity
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"It was absolutely marvelous working for Wolfgang Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no worry that he would think a particular question was stupid, since he thought all questions were stupid."

Weisskopf, Victor on stupidity    Share

"The greatest of all sins is stupidity."

Wilde, Oscar on stupidity
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"The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them."

Wilde, Oscar on stupidity
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"Our greatest stupidities may be very wise."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on stupidity    Share

"When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on stupidity    Share

"“Too much fame, money or alcohol can make you stupid.”"

Fry, Jeffrey on stupidity    Share

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