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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom
    7765 likes

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    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
    4184 likes

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    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    ― Euripides, The Bacchae
    tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding
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    George Carlin
    “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, misattributed-george-carlin, stupidity
    3534 likes

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  • #11
    “I'll take crazy over stupid any day.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: insanity, stupidity
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, The Laughing Corpse
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    Jim Butcher
    “Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Vignette
    tags: evil, harry-dresden, stupidity
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: classic-insult, humor, intelligence, people, stupidity
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    Bertrand Russell
    “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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    Christopher Hitchens
    “What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
    tags: atheism, dislikes, racism, religion, scepticism, stupidity, superstition
    714 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Irony is wasted on the stupid”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: irony, stupid, stupidity
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    Patricia Briggs
    “Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.”
    ― Patricia Briggs, Dragon Bones
    tags: anger, fencing, stupid, stupidity
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    Blaise Pascal
    “I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    tags: heaven, hell, intelligence, paradise, stupidity
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    Jim C. Hines
    “Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit.

    [Blog post, March 12, 2012]”
    ― Jim C. Hines
    tags: freedom-of-speech, stupidity
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
    tags: bias, bickering, disagreement, falacy, fool, information, intelligence, politics, religion, science, stupidity, wisdom
    325 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
    41962 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: atheism, organized-religion, paradox, religion
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    George Carlin
    “If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”
    ― George Carlin
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    John Lennon
    “It's weird not to be weird.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: conformity, individualism, paradox
    1220 likes

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    Plato
    “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: apology, knowing, nothing, paradox, plato, republic, socrates, socratic, wisdome
    1459 likes

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    Jon Stewart
    “Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”
    ― Jon Stewart
    tags: absurd, organized-religion, paradox, religion
    1096 likes

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  • #29
    “All generalizations are false, including this one.”
    ― Unknown - attributed to Mark Twain by Normand Baillargeon
    tags: paradox
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  • #30
    Zsa Zsa Gabor
    “Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. ”
    ― Zsa Zsa Gabor
    tags: marriage, paradox, wisdom
    174 likes



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