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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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    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
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    “I'll take crazy over stupid any day.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: insanity, stupidity
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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
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    Harlan Ellison
    “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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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, The Green Hills of Earth
    tags: hanlon-s-razor, malice, stupidity
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: stupidity
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    Harlan Ellison
    “The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Surfacing
    tags: evil, stupidity
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  • #11
    Frank Zappa
    “There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.”
    ― Frank Zappa
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    Anton Szandor LaVey
    “Stupidity—The top of the list for Satanic Sins. The Cardinal Sin of Satanism. It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful. Ignorance is one thing, but our society thrives increasingly on stupidity. It depends on people going along with whatever they are told. The media promotes a cultivated stupidity as a posture that is not only acceptable but laudable. Satanists must learn to see through the tricks and cannot afford to be stupid.”
    ― Anton LaVey
    tags: 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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    Jonathan Swift
    “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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    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
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Irony is wasted on the stupid”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: irony, stupid, stupidity
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  • #17
    John Steinbeck
    “Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: stupidity, willful-ignorance
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    “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
    ― Robert J. Hanlon
    tags: evil, malice, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-robert-a-heinlein, misattributed-to-einstein, 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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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: ignorance, regret, stupidity, victory
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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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    Robert Jordan
    “I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement”
    ― Robert Jordan, The Gathering Storm
    tags: stupidity
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    Petronius
    “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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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.”
    ― Robert Heinlein
    tags: stupidity
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    Toba Beta
    “Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.”
    ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
    tags: intelligence, purpose, 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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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
    tags: fortune, luck, stupidity
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: mediocrity, stupidity
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  • #29
    Will Rogers
    “If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can't get us out.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: stupidity
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  • #30
    Carl Sagan
    “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
    165 likes



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