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You can know a lot and still be stupid.

You can not argue with stupid but you can certainly play with it.

You cannot simply hide your stupidity under the shed of your immaturity.

You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.

You can't overestimate the stupidity of the general public.

You can't taste the glory of that person, Who pass the the gate of mortality , Which is guarded by stupidity

You can't stay here any more. My fears have been irrational and they've forced me to make unwise decisions and accept the unacceptable.

You know what man really desires?" inquired the doctor, grinning into the immobile face of the Baron. "One of two things: to find someone who is so stupid that he can lie to her, or to love someone so much that she can lie to him.

You know what? We need a recession in this country, because that would finaly weed out al the subnormal, underdeveloped, stupefied, puerile people in this workforce.

you know what is stupidity? underestimating self

You looked a little bit smarter when your stupidity lessened a lot.

You may be a good warrior... But you've made a mistake I never did. You agreed to serve a stupid king.

You might have said that his look was thoughtful until you realized that he was not a thoughtful man. It was the earnest and contained look of those who are a little hard of hearing or a little stupid.

You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all.He'd probably say he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.

you must be stupid , if you think that i'm stupid enough, to believe your stupidness stupidity .

You're going to keep making these mistakes as long as you keep carrying your brain in the same scabbard with your sword, Lelldorin.

After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity.

you're Shane, right?' He inched away from her and managed a quick nod as he twisted the rag he held in his fingers. 'Heidi sad you were willing to teach me how to ride.' Her expression shifted from entertained to confused, as if she was wondering why no one had mentioned he was a can or two shy of a six-pack. 'A horse,' he clarified, then wanted to kick himself. What else but a horse? Did he think she was here to learn to ride his mother's elephant? One corner of Annabelle's perfect, full mouth twitched. 'A horse would be good. You seem to have several.' He wanted to remind himself that he was usually fine around women. Smooth even. He was intelligent, funny and could, on occasion, be charming. Just not now, with his blood pumping and his brain doing nothing more than shouting "it's her, it's her" over and over again. Chemistry, he thought grimly. It could turn the smartest man into a drooling idiot. Here he was, proving the theory true.

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain.

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.

All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.

Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]

Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity.

A lottery is a tax on stupidity.

A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

Archimedes once said that 'Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.' There is a much more difficult task than this: To try to lift an ignorant up from where he stands, because he is heavily chained to the stupidity!

A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.

Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when you don't know anything, not even as much as you did when you were younger, and you don't even have a philosophy about all the things you don't know, the way you did when you were twenty or would again when you were thirty-eight.

Bravery and Stupidity can often be mistaken for the other.

A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.

Aren’t you forgetting something?” – Acheron “What?” – Artemis “Your payment.” – Acheron “The happiness on your face when first you touched him was enough. I only wish you’d been there when your daughter was born, but that was my fault. I’ve had a lifetime of joy, hugs and love from her and you missed all of that because of my stupidity and fear. His life is my gift to both of you. Let’s hope the future is much kinder to all of us than the past has been.” – Artemis

As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place of stupidity I must attack: vain mortal, you are limited by nothing.

A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread.

Ban walking sticks in wilderness. Hikers that use walking sticks are more likely to chase animals.

Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.

BTW A 24 week old embryo is not a human being. You're not a human being until you're in my phone book.

But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly.

But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

Communism has failed; capitalism has failed; common sense has failed; now has to fail stupidity.

Culture, which by definition serves no purpose, has now found a role as the consort of business. Right off the bat we have a beached whale, since there is nothing that disdains culture as much as business does. ... In fact, 'corporate culture' is nothing more than the crystallization of the stupidity of a group of people at a given moment.

Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not "idealistic," no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Doubt is the father of invention.

Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot.

Equality is. one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler--a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hard-earned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.