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#1

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
― Harlan Ellison

tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity

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#2

“A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.”
― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

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#3

“Irony is wasted on the stupid”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: irony, stupid, stupidity

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#4

“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

[Thoughts on Various Subjects]”
― Jonathan Swift , Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays

tags: dunces, genius, stupidity

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#5

“If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

tags: insults, put-downs, stupidity

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#6

“I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement”
― Robert Jordan, The Gathering Storm

tags: stupidity

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#7

“Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb?”
― Petronius, The Satyricon

tags: ancient, humour, irony, latin, nonsense, satyre, stupidity, text, the-satyricon, trimalchio

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#8

“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, Love Is Blind

tags: intelligent, stupid, stupidity

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#9

“Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

tags: human-nature, science, stupidity

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#10

“...it’s just another one of those things I don’t understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish you and everyone else into the same ridiculous mould. It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: art, artists, be-yourself, catholic-author, creative-process, encouragement, funny, gadfly, humor, humor-inspirational, individuality, inspirational, ironic, irony, irony-of-life, rebel, rebellion, rebels, stupidity, stupidity-of-man, uniqueness

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#11

“I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my auditors. You see, there is one very good thing about mankind; the mediocre masses make very few demands of the mediocrities of a higher order, submitting stupidly and cheerfully to their guidance”
― Alfred de Vigny, Stello

tags: mankind, mediocrity, stupidity

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#12

“Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.”
― Hyman G. Rickover

tags: optimism, stupidity

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#13

“The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that time.”
― Gary Malone, Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

tags: christian-fundamentalism, creationism, religion, religious-fundamentalism, science, stupidity

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#14

“The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
― Bertrand Russell "Christian Ethics" from Marriage and Morals 1950 quoted from James A Haught ed 200, Mortals and Others

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#15

“A stupid friend can hurt you more than a smart enemy.”
― Erol Ozan

tags: betrayal, disappointment, friends, friendship, harmful, intelligence, relationships, stupidity

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#16

“The only thing I hate worse than a hero is a stupid hero.”
― Raymond L. Atkins, The Front Porch Prophet

tags: hero, stupidity

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#17

“Dogs are owned for their loyalty, but men are owned only because of their stupidity.”
― M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

tags: dogs, loyalty, owned, stupidity

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#18

“People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.”
― Max Barry, Lexicon

tags: identity, stupidity, truth

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#19

“One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith

tags: meritocracy, privilege, reading, stupidity

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#20

“When you are in the company of lunatics, behave like a lunatic. When you are in the company of intelligentsias, speak with brilliance...that is how a chameleon behaves, the territory changes it, and it adapts to the changes.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: approach, attention, behaviour, chameleon, dealing-with-people, deception, false-image, lunatic, michael-bassey-johnson, strange, stupidity, wise, wits

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#21

“There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. If, for the sake of argument, 1 million are violent, that's a mere .000625 percent of them. I wonder who among you wants to be judged on such a tiny minority. Further, at 1.6 billion, if all Muslims - or even most Muslims - were violent, the world would already be in flames. Most people simply want to live their lives in peace, with some degree of material comfort. I find it bizarre - and disturbing - that so many Americans imagine that being a Muslim somehow trumps human nature and makes ordinary simple people want to rise up and kill everyone. That takes a special kind of stupid.”
― Dave Champion

tags: death, hatred, islam, killing, material-comfort, minority, muslim, religion, stupidity, violence

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#22

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
― Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle

tags: government, kidding, misattributed-mark-twain, stupidity

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#23

“An open Facebook page is simply a psychiatric dry erase board that screams, “Look at me. I am insecure. I need your reaction to what I am doing, but you’re not cool enough to be my friend. Therefore, I will just pray you see this because the approval of God is not all I need.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: be-better, be-kind, clever, comments, embarrassment, fake, give-people-space, google-plus, hidden-agendas, humor, jabs, let-it-go, lighten-up, listen-more, obvious, open-wall, pinterest, posting, quotes, reality, run-away, self-respect, social-media, truthful, wakeup-call, walk-away, women

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#24

“First, however, I must deal with the matter of Jesus, the so-called savior, who not long ago taught new doctrines and was thought to be a son of God. This savior, I shall attempt to show, deceived many and caused them to accept a form of belief harmful to the well-being of mankind. Taking its root in the lower classes, the religion continues to spread among the vulgar: nay, one can even say it spreads because of its vulgarity and the illiteracy of its adherents. And while there are a few moderate, reasonable, and intelligent people who interpret its beliefs allegorically, yet it thrives in its purer form among the ignorant.”
― Celsus, On the True Doctrine: A Discourse Against the Christians

tags: doctrine, harm, ignorance, illiteracy, legends, myths, origins, stupidity, superstition, vulgarity

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#25

“Careful, Mr. Spiro, guns are dangerous. Especially the end with the hole.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code

tags: stupidity

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#26

“Fear is a communicable disease; it comes out in the sweat and passes from host to host. Fear is an incendiary agent; it combusts with stupidity.”
― Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove

tags: agent, combust, disease, fear, host, incendiary, stupidity, sweat

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#27

“You can not argue with stupid but you can certainly play with it.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

tags: arguing, stupidity

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#28

“Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: angry-men, cheaters, convenience, cruelty, defaming, evilness, fake-christians, gossip, gossipers, human, hurt, hypocrisy, imperfect, jealous-women, judgers, liars, mistake, pain, players, rumors, sinners, sorow, stalkers, stupid-women, stupidity, unchristlike, unkind

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#29

“It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: art, artist, artists, arts-and-humanities, creative-people, creativity, gadfly, rebel, rebellion, rights, rights-and-duties, stupidity, stupidity-of-man

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#30

“Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business.”
― Simon Kuper, Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Even Iraq--Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport

tags: business, football, stupidity

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