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I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think. - Wolfgang Pauli The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism (l. 612) People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. - Agnes Repplier If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid. - Bertrand Arthur William Russell There is no dunce like a mature dunce. - George Santayana Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. [Ger., Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens.] - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Maid of Orleans (act III, sc. 6) A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's. [Ger., Schad'um die Leut'! Sind sonst wackre Bruder Aber das denkt, wie ein Seifensieder.] - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Wallenstein's Lager (XI, 347) When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. - George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance. - Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek) Peter was dull; he was at first Dull;--Oh, so dull--so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed-- Still with his dulness was he cursed-- Dull--beyond all conception--dull. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Peter Bell the Third (pt. VII, XI) As if there were safety in stupidity alone. - Henry David Thoreau It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. - Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) And whoever begins by being a dupe ends by becoming a scoundrel. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people. - Christoph Martin Wieland Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde), An Ideal Husband (act II) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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