I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my auditors. You see, there is one very good thing about mankind; the mediocre masses make very few demands of the mediocrities of a higher order, submitting stupidly and cheerfully to their guidance

Alfred de Vigny

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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked

R. Buckminster Fuller

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Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation over and see if there’s a doorway somewhere. I think most people eventually do look for the doorway and stop bumping into the wall

Robert Anton Wilson

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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

John Steinbeck

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If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

Jane Austen

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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

William Faulkner

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Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

Gustave Flaubert

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[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

George Bernard Shaw

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I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

George Bernard Shaw

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If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

John Grisham

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