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One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.

I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.

I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity. These antitheses are mediated in a higher unity; in our common stupidity.

The Organization of American States couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.

There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste.

Eisenhower's career demonstrated how it is possible to fool all the people all the time...'I may be stupid,' he once said at a press conference, 'but at least I'm sincere!' Actually, he was neither, but it suited his purpose to play the part of the bumbling man of good will who was 'not an expert in these matters' but somehow would do his best.

My theory is that there is a finite amount of intelligence in a family, and you're supposed to gradually transfer it to your children over a period of many years. This is why your parents started to get so stupid just at the time in your life when you were getting really smart.

A lot of beautiful people are stupid. There are a tremendous number of idiots who look so good. It's frightening.

If anyone knew where they were, I'd send the ISDBB (Incredibly Stupid and Dumb Beyond Belief) award to the two guys who tried to break in to the Ohio penitentiary.

Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.

The best things in life are silly.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.