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• Stupidity: Behaviour that shows a lack of good sense or judgement. Oxford Dictionary
• Stupid: The state of being foolish or unintelligent. Merriam Webster
• Stupid: Lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind. Dictionary.com
• Stupid: Not intelligent; having or showing a lack of ability to learn and understand things. Merriam Webster
• Idiot: A very stupid or foolish person. Merriam Webster
• Foolishness,  Ignorance,  Intelligence,  Wisdom,  Common sense,  Genius

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Stupidity has its price

• 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
• It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs. Sherrill Brown
• Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid. Dan Simmons

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Life is hard when you’re stupid

• Life is hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid. Michael Crichton
• Life is tough but it’s tougher when you’re stupid. John Wayne
• If you’re gonna be stupid you gotta be tough. John Grisham

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Stupidity can be a dangerous thing …

• Stupidity makes you dangerous–to yourself and everyone around you. Jennifer Lee Carrell
• A stupid man–the most dangerous animal of all. Ariana Franklin
• Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• There’s nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot. Scott Adams
• Danger

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… for often it causes great trouble and harm …

• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. P.J. O’Rourke
• 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
• What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition. Christopher Hitchens
• There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. Georg C. Lichtenberg

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… more harm sometimes than even wickedness and evil

• Stupidity is evil waiting to happen. Clay Bond
• Stupidity is the friend of evil.
• Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference. Jim Butcher
• Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel. Jack London
• It’s the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked. L.M. Montgomery
• Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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For this reason, many argue stupidity is a kind of sin

• There is no sin except stupidity. Oscar Wilde
• Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself. Alfred Lord Tennyson
• If there is an eighth deadly sin, it ought to be stupidity, by which all virtues run out into dry sands. Lois McMaster Bujold
• Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. Margaret Atwood
• Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other “sins” are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful– just stupid.) Robert A. Heinlein
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The problem with stupidity is there is so much of it in the world

• Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that.  I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.  Frank Zappa
• Only two things are certain: the universe and human stupidity and I’m not certain about the universe. Albert Einstein
• God must love stupid people. He made so many.
• The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. Harlan Elison
• Stupidity isn’t punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop. Laurell K. Hamilton
• There are more fools in the world than there are people. Heinrich Heine
• The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. Harlan Ellison
• Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider! George Carlin
• There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. Frank Zappa
• If idiots could fly, the sky would be like an airport. Laura Davenport
• IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot’s activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but “pervades and regulates the whole.” He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line. Ambrose Bierce

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The problem with simplicity is it is often so sincere

• Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. Oscar Wilde
• You can be sincere and still be stupid. Charles F. Kettering
• It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. George Bernard Shaw
• Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King Jr.
• Do not ever say that the desire to “do good” by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. Ayn Rand

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The problem with stupidity is it has no limits

• Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. Elbert Hubbard
• In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity. Konrad Adenauer
• The difference between genius and stupidity is that even genius has its limits. Rita Mae Brown
• Two things are infinite, as far as we know – the universe and human stupidity. Albert Einstein
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The problem with stupidity is tends to last forever

• Stupid was a prison they never let you out of, no time off for good behavior, you were in for life. Stephen King
• Beauty fades, dumb is forever. Judy Sheindlin
• Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed. Don Wood
• They say even death can’t cure an idiot. Tite Kubo

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Never underestimate stupidity …

• Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. Robert Heinlein
• One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is. Madame de Tengini
• You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. Scott Adams

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… especially collective stupidity

• Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
• Every once in a while, the market does something so stupid it takes your breath away. Jim Cramer
• I’ve always believed that a person is smart. It’s people that are stupid. Marilyn Manson
• I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. Thomas Carlyle
• It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity – the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension – can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion… Robertson Davies
• One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork. Edward Abbey

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Stupidity is a force to be reckoned with …

• Stupidity is a force unto itself. Proverb
• Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match. Karl Kraus

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… a force that is very hard to fight

• Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. Gustave Flaubert
• Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. Friedrich von Schiller
• Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless. Yiddish Proverb
• You can’t argue with stupidity. Jermaine Jackson
• It’s possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it’s probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity. P. D. James
• You can’t legislate against stupidity. Jesse Ventura

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It’s best to just accept stupidity in the world as a fact of life

• The man who is worthy of being “a leader of men” will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the inappreciation of the public. These are all a part of the great game of life. To meet them and overcome them and not to go down before them in disgust, discouragement or defeat-that is the final proof of power. William J. H. Boetcker
• You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things. Nevil Shute
• Stupidity is a factor to be reckoned with in human affairs. The true leader always expects to encounter it, and prepares to endure it patiently so long as it is normal stupidity. He knows that his ideas will be distorted, his orders carelessly executed; and that there will be jealousy among his assistants. He takes these inevitable phenomena into account, and instead of attempting to find men without faults, who are non-existent, he tries to make use of the best men at his disposal – as they are, and not as they ought to be. André Maurois
• Always you have to contend with the stupidity of men. Henry David Thoreau
• Acceptance

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Stupidity is being unnecessarily rude

• It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter– an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy. Arthur Schopenhauer
• Rudeness,  Politeness

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Stupidity is forgetting your purpose

• Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity. Toba Beta
• To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Purpose

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Stupidity is making constant judgements

• Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities. Friedrich Nietzsche

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Stupidity is making things obscure to look intelligent

• But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be intelligent, which is really stupid. And when intelligence takes itself for its own goal, it operates very strangely: the proof that it exists is not to be found in the ingenuity or simplicity of what it produces, but in how obscurely it is expressed. Muriel Barbery
• And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect. Leo Tolstoy
• Complexity,  Confusion

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Stupidity is admiring complexity over simplicity

• Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior. Dee Hock
• Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can’t understand. Cardinal De Retz
• Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction. Albert Einstein
• Complexity,  Simplicity

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Anger, if not controlled, makes us stupid

• An angry man is always a stupid man. Chinua Achebe
• Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent’s blade. Patricia Briggs
• Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one’s temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self- control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word. Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Violence is stupid

• Violence and cruelty were just a stupid person’s way of making oneself felt, because it was easier to use your hands to strike a blow then to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to a problem. Anne Holm
• Violence,  Cruelty

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Worry is stupid for it achieves nothing

• Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness. Arnold Bennett
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Envy is stupid

• Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. Honore de Balzac
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Not being willing to change is stupid

• It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change. Confucius
• Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change. Confucius
• Change

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Excessive stubbornness can be stupid

• In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. Simone de Beauvoir
• If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. W.C. Fields
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What we’re doing to the planet is stupid

• We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. Stephen Hawking
• We’re in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone’s arguing over where they’re going to sit. David Suzuki
• The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature – nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man’s passing. Loudon Wainwright
• Care for the environment

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Here are more signs and forms of stupidity

• Blindly rejecting the mainstream is pretty stupid. Non-conformity for the sake of non- conforming is still conformity. Jonathan Mead
• If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them? Francis Parker Yockey
• The stupidest mistake in life is thinking the one who hurt you the most, won’t hurt you again.
• To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. K. Chesterton
• Stupidity is wasting your time on people you don’t care about. Kayla Barry
• Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat. Ernest Bevin
• The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others. Tibetan Proverb
• When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. George Bernard Shaw
• Don’t be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence. Osho
• To generalize is to be an idiot. William Blake
• To believe the world is only as you think it is, is stupid. Carlos Castaneda
• We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets. Marilyn Monroe

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Egotism and stupidity often go hand in hand

• Egotism is the anaesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. Frank Leahy
• Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance. Paul David Tripp
• Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride. Garth Nix
• I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. Edith Sitwell
• Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. Eric Hoffer
• Transcending the ego

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Ignorance and stupidity usually go hand in hand

• Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance. Paul David Tripp
• Ignorance is innocence – stupidity comes with experience.
• Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid. Lois McMaster Bujold
• Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.
• Only ignorance excuses stupidity. Nalini Singh
• Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed. Don Wood
• Stupidity has a certain charm – ignorance does not. Frank Zappa
• Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance. William Gaddis
• We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. Benjamin Franklin
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Closing your mind makes you stupid

• Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity. Michel de Montaigne
• There is no adequate defence, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea. W. Bridgman
• To believe the world is only as you think it is, is stupid Carlos Castaneda
• Closed-mindedness,  Open-mindedness

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Never stretching your comfort zone makes you stupid

• The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. Adam Smith
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Blind faith that negates all other beliefs can make us stupid

• 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
• To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself. Sophy Burnham
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Feelings are never stupid

• Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes. Laurell K. Hamilton
• Emotions

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Some argue almost anything is preferable to stupidity …

• I’ll take crazy over stupid any day. Joss Whedon
• I would prefer a intelligent hell to a stupid paradise. Blaise Pascal
• To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn’t. Primo Levi
• There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man. William Hazlitt
• I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise. Blaise Pascal

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… and it’s always best to keep your stupidity hidden if you can

• Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed. Heraclitus of Ephesus
• It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Others argue in favour of stupidity …

• The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Stupidity often saves a man from going mad. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. Albert Camus
• Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward. Bill Davidsen
• Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity. Oscar Wilde
• In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it. Elbert Hubbard
• Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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… saying that stupidity can actually bring success and happiness…

• Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. Sloan Wilson
• To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Gustave Flaubert
• To succeed in the world, it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. Voltaire
• Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy,” said my father as he watched the three beauties. “But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this? Orhan Pamuk
• Success,  Happiness

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… for it brings a certain level of confidence and lack of doubt

• Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way. Chris Lowe
• The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell
• Stupidity is without anxiety. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Smart people have the brains, but stupid people have the balls. Ana
• Self-confidence,  Doubt

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Maybe that’s why there are so many stupid politicians!

• In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte
• Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. Sloan Wilson
• Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain
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We are all stupid, just in different aspects and areas

• Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. Albert Einstein
• Everybody is ignorant — only on different subjects. Will Rogers

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Be brave enough to ask stupid questions

• Only stupid questions create wealth. Gary Hamel
• Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is ignorant of one thing or another. They know that, to another intelligent person, they will not appear stupid in asking for an explanation of what they do not know, and so their ignorance on any particular issue does not become an embarrassment. Lynsay Sands
• 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
• Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant. Proverb
• Questions

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Be brave enough to look and act stupid

• When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. Cynthia Heimel
• Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish. Chuck Palahniuk
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Admit your stupidity to others and you become bullet proof …

• So we admit our faults, and we stop labelling them faults. We have to get over narcissistic sensitivity. All negative reactions are not caused from outside; it’s how we choose. The way to become bulletproof is to own anything that seems a fault. The way to overcome the ego’s reaction to that is to say, “I’m stupid and ugly. It doesn’t matter; God loves me.” David R. Hawkins

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… but stop telling yourself you’re stupid

• When a little child is learning to walk or talk, we encourage him and praise him for every tiny improvement he makes. The child beams and eagerly tries to do better. Is this the way you encourage yourself when you are learning something new? Or do you make it harder to learn because you tell yourself that you are stupid or clumsy or a ‘failure’? Louise L. Hay

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Learn from your stupidity and the stupidity of others …

• God knows I’m not perfect, either. I’ve made tons of stupid mistakes, and later I regretted them. And I’ve done it over and over again, thousands of times; a cycle of hollow joy and vicious self-hatred. But even so, every time I learned something about myself. Hideaki Anno
• Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked. Richard Buckminster Fuller
• Life is one long experiment in learning. Who can be perfect all the time? Sometimes I feel half- wise, sometimes half- stupid. Terri Guillemets
• Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. Marcus Tullius Cicero
• A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned. Arabic Proverb
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… and you will become wise

• Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity. Brian Rathbone
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Love and friendship is being able to be stupid together

• Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery
• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story. Jean Plaidy
• Love,  Friendship

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Education fortifies stupidity rather than curing it

• Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. Bertrand Russell
• There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in. Will Rogers
• Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it. Stephen Vizinczey
• Seriousness is stupidity sent to college. P. J. O’Rourke
• If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading…he gradually loses the capacity for thinking…This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid. Arthur Schopenhauer
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Never argue with a stupid person for you’ll soon look stupid too

• Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. Mark Twain
• A healthy argument, even with an idiot, is always good; it opens one’s eyes to own misunderstandings. Ashok Kallarakkal

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Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity

• Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. Nick Diamos
• When stupidity is a sufficient explanation, there is no need to have recourse to any other. Mitchell Ulmann
• You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity. Robert A. Heinlein

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Thoughts on genius and stupidity

• There’s a thin line between genius and bottom-barrel stupidness. I hover delicately on a tightrope between the two, wondering where I’ll land if I’ll ever fall. Suzanne Crowley
• Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. Elbert Hubbard
• 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. Bill Watterson
• Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot. Charles Bukowski
• Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. Samuel Goldwyn
• When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift
• Genius,  Intelligence

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• “Who the hell allowed me to be born in this stupid head?” a Thought said and killed herself.
• A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat. P.J. O’Rourke
• A word to the wise ain’t necessary. It is the stupid ones who need all the advice. Bill Cosby
• Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people it is true that most stupid people are conservative. John Stuart Mill
• Amateur: A person too stupid to profit from the talent they possess. Mike Barfield
• Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.   Hedy Lamarr
• Anything too stupid to be said is sung. Voltaire
• Are you always this stupid or is today a special occasion?
• Are you an idiot, or an idiot?’ Gargarin hissed. ‘The first one. I really resent being called the second. Melina Marchetta
• Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
• Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidity.
• Before we work on artificial intelligence why don’t we do something about natural stupidity? Steve Polyak
• Calling you an idiot would be an insult to all stupid people.
• Confucius say don’t assume malice for what stupidity can explain. Confucius
• Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
• Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster with more energy!
• Education: that which reveals to the wise and conceals from the stupid the vast limits of their knowledge. Mark Twain
• Egotism is the anaesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. Frank Leahy
• Even if you were twice as smart, you’d still be stupid!
• Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. Albert Einstein
• Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
• Fools rush in where fools have been before.
• Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. Elbert Hubbard
• God must love stupid people. He made so many.
• He gargled from the fountain of knowledge.
• He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more. P.G. Wodehouse
• He has a photographic memory but with the lens cover glued on.
• He is so stupid – it takes him 2 hours to watch 60 minutes.
• He is so stupid – mind readers charge him half price.
• He is so stupid you can’t trust him with an idea. John Steinbeck
• He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but dont let that fool you. He really is an idiot. Groucho Marx
• He was born stupid and greatly increased his birthright. Samuel Butler
• He’d have to get smarter just to be stupid.
• Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday lying in hospitals dying of nothing. Redd Foxx
• Here’s all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. George Carlin
• Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward. J.K. Rowling
• Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked. Richard Buckminster Fuller
• I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. Edith Sitwell
• I can’t believe that out of 25 million sperm, you were the quickest.
• I don’t know what makes you so stupid, but it really works.
• I don’t think you act stupid, I’m sure it’s the real thing.
• I don’t think you are stupid. You just have a bad luck when thinking.
• I don’t want to elect anyone stupid enough to want the job. Erma Bombeck
• I may be dumb but I’m not stupid. Terry Bradshaw
• I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid. Dorothy Parker
• I want you guys to line up alphabetically by height. Bill Peterson
• I’m not a complete idiot, some parts are missing!
• If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? Albert Einstein
• If he were any more stupid he’d have to be watered twice a week.
• 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
• If you gave him a penny for his thoughts you’d get change.
• If you stand close enough to him you can hear the ocean.
• If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off. Kurt Vonnegut
• Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.
• In politics stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte
• In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity. Konrad Adenauer
• Intelligent people when assembled into an organization will tend toward collective stupidity. Albrecht’s Law II
• It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. George Bernard Shaw
• It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end to end someone would be stupid enough to try and pass them.
• It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so. Jerome K. Jerome
• It’s relaxing to go out with my ex-wife because she already knows I’m an idiot. Warren Thomas
• It’s so simple to be wise: just think of something stupid to say and then don’t say it.   Homer Simpson
• It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful. Anton Lavey
• Just think of something stupid to say and then don’t say it. Sam Levenson
• Laugh alone and the world thinks you’re an idiot. American Proverb
• Life’s hard. It’s even harder when you’re stupid. John Wayne
• Living in England provincial England must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife. Margaret Halsey
• Most people don’t act stupid: it’s the real thing! Alfred E. Neuman
• My father was stupid; he worked in a bank and they caught him stealing pens. Rodney Dangerfield
• My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. Vladimir Nabokov
• Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Hanlon’s Razor
• Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. Robert Heinlein
• Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. Brendan Bradley
• Oh right! To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! I’ve known sheep that could outwit you. I’ve worn dresses with higher IQs! Jamie Lee Curtis
• One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes but for real bona fide stupidity there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork. Edward Abbey
• Only two things are infinite the universe and human stupidity and I’m not sure about the former. Albert Einstein
• Ordinarily he was insane but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. Heinrich Heine
• Racism is so stupid; there’s more than enough reasons to dislike people on an individual basis. Will Durst
• Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time. Terry Pratchett
• Republicans elect stupid leaders with brilliant staffs and Democrats produce brilliant presidents with stupid staffs. Jay Leno
• Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid. Dave Barry
• Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid. Frank  Kin’ Hubbard
• Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate. Terry Pratchett
• Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way. Chris Lowe
• Stupidity comes in all shapes and sizes. Some of them even look like people.
• Stupidity got us into this mess and stupidity will get us out. Homer Simpson
• Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. Albert Camus
• Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting. Robert Heinlein
• Stupidity is not a crime so you are free to go.
• Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence; this explains why we have so many stupid leaders. Sloan Wilson
• Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. Edmond & Jules de Goncourt
• The best part about turning 40 is that we did most of our stupid stuff before the Internet.
• The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It’s the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework. Jennifer Weiner
• The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. Albert Einstein
• The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action.
• The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt. Bertrand Russell
• The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. Harlan Ellison
• There are four things that hold back human progress – ignorance stupidity committees and accountants.   Charles J.C. Lyall
• There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life. Frank Zappa
• There is one subtle but important difference between genius and stupidity and that is that genius has its limits.
• Think of how stupid the average person is and realize half of them are stupider than that. George Carlin
• To be clever enough to get all that money one must be stupid enough to want it. K. Chesterton
• To be stupid, selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness though if stupidity is lacking all is lost. Gustave Flaubert
• To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. Voltaire
• We are all born ignorant but one must work hard to remain stupid. Benjamin Franklin
• What do they do for a village idiot when you’re here? Tanya Huff
• What he lacks in intelligence he makes up for in stupidity.
• When arguing with a stupid person be sure he isn’t doing the same thing.
• When you are dead, you don’t know that you are dead. It is difficult only for the others.  It is the same when you are stupid.
• When you left your home, you deprived the village of it’s idiot.
• Why do women pay more attention to their appearance than improving their minds? Because most men are stupid, but few are blind.
• Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity. Brian Rathbone
• You are depriving some poor village of its idiot.
• You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. Scott Adams
• You must have taken great pains sir; you could not naturally have been so very stupid. Samuel Johnson

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