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We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
Paul Gauguin
Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
Ernest Bevin
It is much easier for good to deal with evil than it is for good to deal with stupidity.
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Stupidity is the friend of evil.
Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
Karl Kraus
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France
Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.
Charles Churchill
Every time I try to define a perfectly stable person, I am appalled by the dullness of that person.
J. D. Griffin
Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.
Frank Dane
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Eric Hoffer
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
Horace Mann
It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
Jerome K. Jerome
The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -- Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stupidity is a force unto itself.
Proverb
Never forget public ignorance is the government's best friend.
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people jumping up and down for joy.
Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.
In the battle for survival the ignorant man has a considerable advantage.
Man is the inventor of stupidity.
Remy de Gourmont
