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• Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

  John Stuart Mill

  Topics in Stupid

  Tags in Conservatives, Stupidity

• Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

  Edwin Herbert Land

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stupidity, Creativity

• ‘Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. (attributed)

  Abraham Lincoln

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stupidity

• Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do.

  Bertrand Russell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stupidity

• With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

  Friedrich Schiller

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• A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

  Douglas Adams

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Stupidity, Creativity

• Then there’s politics. Just imagine politics with its dumbbell element subtracted. There would be no Republican candidates. There would be no Democratic voters. The whole system would collapse.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Elections, Stupidity

• First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Stupidity

• If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stupidity, Creativity

• Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.

  Marc Estrin

  Topics in Education, Fear, Kindness, Love

  Tags in Gratitude, Sharing, Stupidity, Greed, Learning

• A stupid person should keep silent. But if he knew this, he would not be a stupid person.

  Saadi Shirazi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stupidity

• Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

  John Dewey

  Topics in Luck

  Tags in Stupidity

• The trouble with the world is that the stupid are so confident while the intelligent are full of doubt.

  Bertrand Russell

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Stupidity

• You can’t legislate stupidity.

  Jesse Ventura

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stupidity

• Love is being stupid together.

  Paul Valery

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Stupidity

• At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Ideals, Politics, Religion, Suffering

  Tags in Extremism, Stupidity, Evil

• Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.

  Tom DeLay

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conservatives, Texas, Stupidity

• When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Mistake, Truth

  Tags in Limitations, Stupidity, Earth, School, Reason, Thinking, Reality

• Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Humor, Stupid

  Tags in Two, Stupidity, Things, Universe, Infinite, Human, Sure, Philosophy, Foolishness, Science

• When a war breaks out, people say: “It’s too stupid, it can’t last long.” But though a war may be “too stupid,” that doesn’t prevent its lasting.

  Albert Camus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stupidity, War