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"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."	Alexandre Dumas
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."	Albert Einstein
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."	Albert Einstein
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."	Albert Einstein
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."	Dwight David Eisenhower
"The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity."	Harlan Ellison
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant."	Epictetus
"Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth."	Gustave Flaubert
"It is occasionally possible to charge hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain."	Doris Fleeson
"He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on."	Benjamin Franklin
"I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant."	J(ames) William Fulbright
"Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God."	Kahlil Gibran
"A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains."	Maxim Gorky
"Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt."	Henry Graham Greene
"Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and [the] fragments of stupidity."	Vartan Gregorian
"Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. They're more easily handled than dumb mistakes."	William Wister Haines
"I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain on fire. No, I didn't. Just kidding. I just said that to illustrate one of the human emotions, which is freaking out. Another emotion is greed, as when someone kills someone for money, or something like that. Another emotion is generosity, as when you pay someone double what he paid for his stupid puppet."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lie down on some seaweed and roll around until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go, 'Hey, I'm Vine Man.'"	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
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Benjamin Franklin	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli	Bernard Berenson
Bertrand Russell	Bill Cosby	Bokonon
Charles Caleb Colton	Charles De Gaulle	Charles J. C. Lyall
Clarence Seward Darrow	Confucius	Dave Barry
Dennis Miller	Doris Fleeson	Dorothy Parker
Douglas Adams	Dwight David Eisenhower	Edwin H. Land
Elbert Hubbard	Epictetus	Erma Louise Bombeck
Fran Lebowitz	Frank Leahy	Gamal Abdel Nasser
General Charles De Gaulle	George Bernard Shaw	George Carlin
Groucho Marx	Gustave Flaubert	Harlan Ellison
Henny Youngman	Henry Ford	Henry Graham Greene
Homer Simpson	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jean de LaBruyere
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John F. Kennedy	John Knowles
John Stuart Mill	Jon Bentley	J(ames) William Fulbright
Kahlil Gibran	Katharine Houghton Hepburn	Lee C. Bollinger
Lord Billingsley	Marcus Tullius Cicero	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Maxim Gorky	Mike Tyson	Napolean Bonaparte
Nick Diamos	Oscar Wilde	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rick Moranis	Rodney Dangerfield	Simone de Beauvoir
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Stephen King	Tom Clancy
Vartan Gregorian	Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov	W. Somerset Maugham
Will Rogers	William Wister Haines	Woody Allen
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