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"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."
"Isn't your pants' zipper supposed to be in the front?" --Calvin and Hobbes, "Calvin and Hobbes"
Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. --Schiller
And it shall come to pass that idiots shall roam the earth, and morons shall rule the masses. I think this has already happened.
Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity? --Steve Polyak
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn. --Benjamin Franklin
Dare to be stupid! --Weird Al Yankovic, "Dare to Be Stupid"
Even foolery is dangerous in the hands of a fool. --Jasper
Fighting ignorance since 1973 (it's taking longer then we thought) --slogan at http://www.straightdope.com/
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. --Elbert Hubbard
Good generally conquers evil. Unless, of course, good is stupid.
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. --Walter Kerr
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. --Sydney Smith
He knows so little and knows it so fluently. --Ellen Glasgow
He was a man of few words. And he didn't know what either of them meant. --Terry Pratchett, "The Carpet People"
He wasn't what you would call stupid. His mind got there in the end. It just took the long way around. --Terry Pratchett, "The Carpet People"
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest. --Alexandre Dumas
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.
I'd insult you, but you're not bright enough to notice.
I'm not as dumb as you look.
If ignorance is bliss, you must be orgasmic.
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? --Will Rogers
Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune. --Nicholas Ling
Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star. --Confucius
It's not Beavis and Butthead's fault that their viewers are as stupid as they are.
Let's just say that 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, "Discworld series"
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. --Bertrand Russell
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. --Aldous Huxley
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. --Eric Hoffer
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
No guts, no glory. No brain, same story.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity. ---Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our brains are computers - stupid people aren't stupid... they just have DOS. --Some comic, some TV show
Out out!! You demons of stupidity!! --Dogbert
Silly is a state of mind, stupid is a way of life.
Some push the envelope, some just lick it, and some can't find the flap!
Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and the execution is carried out automatically and without pity. --Lazarus Long
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad. --Oliver Wendell Holmes
The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them. --William Clayton
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. --Wayne Dyer
The number of people watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your actions.
The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance. --Brian Hwang
There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by it's own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity. --Gene Wolfe
They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things. --Terry Pratchett, "Equal Rites"
They say you only use ten percent of your brain. What about the other ten? --Lara Bliss
They're trying to get all Americans to do yoga. They want everyone to let their minds go blank for 10 minutes a day. For some people, this will mean cutting back. --Some comic, some TV show
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. --Benjamin Franklin
We have enough youth, how about a fountain of _smart_?
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. --George Bernard Shaw
Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh my God....I could be eating a slow learner. --Lynda Montgomery
You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance. --Edward Flaherty
You're never too old to learn something stupid.
