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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle
It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?
William Booth
Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
Nicholas Ling
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
Will Rogers
You must not enthrone ignorance just because there is much of it.
Proverb
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard
Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless.
Yiddish Proverb
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
It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don
Maya Angelou
The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
Brian Hwang
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
To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness; though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.
Gustave Flaubert
Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
Publilius Syrus
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, Can a Doctor B
The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.
Peter Ustinov, Dear Me
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
Eric Hoffer
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
Oscar Wilde
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.
John King Fairbank
