We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.
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We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
My disciples are vegetarian not as a cult, not as a creed. They are vegetarians because their meditations make them more human, more of the heart, and they can see the whole stupidity of people killing living beings for their food. It is their sensitivity, their aesthetic awareness that makes them vegetarians.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
In the end, this world will go under because of the stupidity of people.
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
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