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    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    ― Euripides, The Bacchae
    tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
    tags: insults, put-downs, stupidity
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    Jonathan Swift
    “When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

    [Thoughts on Various Subjects]”
    ― Jonathan Swift , Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays
    tags: dunces, genius, stupidity
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    147968 likes

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    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: philosophy, poetry
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    Laurence J. Peter
    “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
    ― Laurence J. Peter
    tags: misattributed-einstein
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    George Carlin
    “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, misattributed-george-carlin, stupidity
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    Laurence J. Peter
    “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
    ― Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle
    tags: government, kidding, misattributed-mark-twain, stupidity
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, The Laughing Corpse
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    Harlan Ellison
    “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
    tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: humor, politics, stupidity
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    Terry Pratchett
    “If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
    tags: gods, humour, religion, stupidity
    1269 likes

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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: classic-insult, humor, intelligence, people, stupidity
    940 likes

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    Bertrand Russell
    “A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy
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    Harlan Ellison
    “The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: atheism, cruelty, ethics, ethics-in-religion, morality, morality-without-religion, religion, selfishness, stupidity
    750 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Irony is wasted on the stupid”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: irony, stupid, stupidity
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    John Steinbeck
    “Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: stupidity, willful-ignorance
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Surfacing
    tags: evil, stupidity
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  • #21
    Frank Zappa
    “There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.”
    ― Frank Zappa
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  • #22
    “I'll take crazy over stupid any day.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: insanity, stupidity
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  • #23
    Blaise Pascal
    “I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    tags: heaven, hell, intelligence, paradise, stupidity
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    Anton Szandor LaVey
    “Stupidity—The top of the list for Satanic Sins. The Cardinal Sin of Satanism. It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful. Ignorance is one thing, but our society thrives increasingly on stupidity. It depends on people going along with whatever they are told. The media promotes a cultivated stupidity as a posture that is not only acceptable but laudable. Satanists must learn to see through the tricks and cannot afford to be stupid.”
    ― Anton LaVey
    tags: stupidity
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    Patricia Briggs
    “Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.”
    ― Patricia Briggs, Dragon Bones
    tags: anger, fencing, stupid, stupidity
    364 likes

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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: ignorance, regret, stupidity, victory
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  • #27
    Jim C. Hines
    “Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit.

    [Blog post, March 12, 2012]”
    ― Jim C. Hines
    tags: freedom-of-speech, stupidity
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    Marilyn Manson
    “I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.”
    ― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
    tags: marilyn-manson, people, stupidity
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  • #29
    “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
    ― Robert J. Hanlon
    tags: evil, malice, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-robert-a-heinlein, misattributed-to-einstein, stupidity
    344 likes

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  • #30
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
    tags: bias, bickering, disagreement, falacy, fool, information, intelligence, politics, religion, science, stupidity, wisdom
    324 likes



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