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worms have crawled up your nose and eaten your wits.

Is that gallantry I smell, or just stupidity? The two scents are much alike, as I recall.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of int...

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Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

I tell you, stupidity, self-protective stupidity, is the fundamental sin. No man alive has a right t...

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Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water...

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And the German society of eighty million people had been shielded against reality and factuality by ...

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Hannah ArendtEichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.

Stupidity is doomed,therefore, to cringeat every syllableof wisdom.

What a queer gamble our existence is. We decide to do A instead of B and then the two roads diverge ...

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As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, som...

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I’m not too sure what the name of the song was that he was playing when I came in, but whatever it w...

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J. D. SalingerThe Catcher in the Rye

Prof McGonagall : ... bravery doesn't forgive stupidity. ...

Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

I'm fairly certain that YOLO is just Carpe Diem for stupid people.

As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dre...

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Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it mo...

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If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o...

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Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array...

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It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being s...

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Jerome K. JeromeIdle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and i...

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She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven...

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You might have said that his look was thoughtful until you realized that he was not a thoughtful man...

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John CheeverVintage Cheever

The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

It's not easy to kill a mountain goat. He thinks with his spine.

Why is being a nerd so bad? saying " I noticed you're a nerd is like saying hey, I noticed you'd rat...

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If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

IT (The country) IS HEADED TOWARD OVERSIMPLIFICATION. YOU WANT TO SEE A PRESIDENT OF THE FUTURE? TUR...

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One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy s...

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Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear an...

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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidentl...

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[P]art of having a complicated mind was understanding its limits, understanding that it couldn't thi...

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So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, ...

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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

I'll take crazy over stupid any day.

Let us tear down the romantic trappings that have adorned passion. Let us cease believing that the m...

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What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more...

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To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though...

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I know who I am. Bloody hell, I'm getting enough bills for Karl Pilkington so I hope I am him, 'cos ...

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Karl PilkingtonAn Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also l...

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In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows.

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L. Frank BaumThe Road to Oz: Children's Classics

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeci...

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And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty,...

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If only my genitals didn't floatWhen I relaxed in the bathAnd we both looked down and we both agreed...

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The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistak...

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The fourth approved approach for the problem of frontally attacking a guarded wormhole was to shoot ...

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Why can’t I do it?” [Isabel] asked….“Do what?”“Just forget about everything. Just go somewhere and g...

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...pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying...

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Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

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Marilyn MansonThe Long Hard Road Out of Hell

The biggest sin in Satanism is not murder, nor is it kindness. It is stupidity.

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars--all over Europe, all over the world. "S...

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People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they ...

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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Men are pigs, darling. I really have every sympathy for women that they actually have to choose one ...

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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human ...

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Of course, even before Flaubert, people knew stupidity existed, but they understood it somewhat diff...

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The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes fr...

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You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

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Nevil ShuteRound the Bend

One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is ...

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We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

That's what Ender has to understand. There really is evil in the world, and wickedness, and every br...

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I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own ina...

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And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

Nero, you are an example to all the children on this shuttle. Because most of them are so foolish, t...

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Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to ...

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People cry out against the sinner, yet it is not the sinful, but the stupid, who are our shame. Ther...

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Oscar WildeThe Critic as Artist

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more...

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I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a nor...

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A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lighting´s going to strike".

And I am nothing if not a stupid, stupid man.

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Paul AusterStation Hill Blanchot Reader

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

Never confuse honor with stupidity!

People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are.

Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others.The same ap...

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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. The...

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You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to loo...

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Getting even was the basis of many primate semantic confusions, such as"expropriating the expropriat...

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It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that ca...

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It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly st...

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I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement

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Robert JordanThe Gathering Storm

If you can’t define something you have no formal rational way of knowing that it exists. Neither can...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

And after all, if stupidity did not, when seen from within, look so exactly like talent as to be mis...

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Robert MusilThe Man Without Qualities

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend ...

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Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

stupidity: a process, not a state. A human being takes in far more information than he or she can pu...

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Samuel R. DelanyStars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

Well, let's see. There's—of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that ther...

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You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public

Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessi...

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