Stupidity is something we all have in common. You may recognize yourself in these proverbs and quotes about stupidity.
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Fools never get grey hair.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Fools speak while the wise listen
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of stupidity.
(unknown author)Freedumb. The belief that your personal freedom outweighs others' personal safety.
(unknown author)Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert HubbardGet all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
Frank DaneGirls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
Yul BrynnerHe is a fool who praises the fruit of a tree and forgets its roots.
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
Samuel JohnsonHe is too stupid to be trusted alone by the fire.
He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.
Groucho MarxHe that is born a fool is never cured.
He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.
F.M. KnowlesHonestly, if you were any slower, you'd be going backward.
J.K. RowlingSource: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Quoted: Malfoy
I am only responsible for what I say, not for what you understand.
(unknown author)I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
(unknown author)I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
George BerkeleyI 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'RourkeI never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
John PeelI wanted to see the weak protected against the strong, and stupidity is a form of weakness.
Dorothy L. SayersSource: Thrones, Dominations
I'll take crazy over stupid any day.
Joss WhedonI'm not allowed a smartphone of my own because I would lose it.
Bill BrysonSource: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
If a bee stings you once, it's the bee's fault; if a bee stings you twice, it's your own damn fault.
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
Albert EinsteinIf a rich man ate a snake, they would say it was because of his wisdom; if a poor man ate it, they would say it was because of his stupidity.
If poverty is the mother of crime, stupidity is its father.
Jean De La BruyereIf the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
William BlakeIf there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott AdamsIf you are intelligent you are clever, so if you are stupid you are telligent?
MinkukelIf you are truly stupid you not only do things stupidly but are in all likelihood too stupid to realize how stupidly you are doing them.
Bill BrysonSource: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
If you don't need a mask because God will protect you, why do you need a gun?
(unknown author)If you think the only people you should have in your country are the people you produce yourselves, you are an idiot.
Bill BrysonSource: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
If you took all the young men in southern England with those caps and that slouch and collected them all together in one room, you still wouldn't have enough IQ points to make a halfwit.
Bill BrysonSource: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
EpictetusIgnorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
Michel de MontaigneIrony is wasted on the stupid.
Oscar WildeIt costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.
Sherrill BrownIt doesn't take many brain cells to be stupid.
MinkukelIt had been exciting, the entire journey, but nothing lasts for ever, except possibly general stupidity.
Jonas JonassonSource: Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
It is a stupid dog that barks at an elephant.
It is a stupid goose that listens to the fox preach.
It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.
Jerome CadyIt is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyIt is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard ShawIt is foolish to show glowworms by candle light.
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
William HazlittIt is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
JeromeIt is the fool whose own tomatoes are sold to him.
It takes great wisdom to play the fool.
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