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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 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." Albert Einstein 4.8509 average rating Rate this Quote
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." Albert Einstein 4.9375 average rating Rate this Quote
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein 4.6964 average rating Rate this Quote
"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 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity." Harlan Ellison 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." Ralph Waldo Emerson 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"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 4.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth." Gustave Flaubert 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is occasionally possible to charge hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain." Doris Fleeson 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"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 3.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"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 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"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 Rate this Quote
"A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains." Maxim Gorky 4.6000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt." Henry Graham Greene 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and [the] fragments of stupidity." Vartan Gregorian Rate this Quote
"Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. They're more easily handled than dumb mistakes." William Wister Haines 4.7273 average rating Rate this Quote
"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] 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"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] 4.8966 average rating Rate this Quote
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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
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