• Stupidity is without anxiety.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.4 · 7 votes · 39 reads

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• Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.9 · 61 votes · 70 reads

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• The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  5.0 · 33 votes · 31 reads

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• The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  3.2 · 58 votes · 25 reads

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• The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.6 · 12 votes · 191 reads

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• The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, c

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.6 · 17 votes · 165 reads

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• The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.1 · 43 votes · 165 reads

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• There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  4.0 · 5 votes · 38 reads

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• To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.1 · 16 votes · 158 reads

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• We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.9 · 8 votes · 78 reads

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• We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

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  Paul Auster

  WriterAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.1 · 51 votes · 143 reads

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