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 Hubbard
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.Frank Dane
Girls 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 Brynner
He 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 Johnson
He 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 Marx
He 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. Knowles
Honestly, if you were any slower, you'd be going backward.J.K. Rowling
Source: 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 Berkeley
I 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'Rourke
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.John Peel
I wanted to see the weak protected against the strong, and stupidity is a form of weakness.Dorothy L. Sayers
Source: Thrones, Dominations
I'll take crazy over stupid any day.Joss Whedon
I'm not allowed a smartphone of my own because I would lose it.Bill Bryson
Source: 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 Einstein
If 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 Bruyere
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.William Blake
If 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 Adams
If you are intelligent you are clever, so if you are stupid you are telligent?Minkukel
If 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 Bryson
Source: 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 Bryson
Source: 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 Bryson
Source: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.Epictetus
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.Michel de Montaigne
Irony is wasted on the stupid.Oscar Wilde
It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.Sherrill Brown
It doesn't take many brain cells to be stupid.Minkukel
It had been exciting, the entire journey, but nothing lasts for ever, except possibly general stupidity.Jonas Jonasson
Source: 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 Cady
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.George Bernard Shaw
It 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 Hazlitt
It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.Jerome
It is the fool whose own tomatoes are sold to him.
It takes great wisdom to play the fool.
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