Borderline Stupidity

Stress makes you stupid. - Unknown

Facts are stupid things. - Ronald Reagan

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. - Leo Tolstoy

Though patrician, he was also stupid. - Greek Proverb

There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man. - Horace

Be on your guard against a silent dog and still water. - Latin Proverb

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. - Friedrich von Schiller

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. - Unknown

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. - John Steinbeck

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. - Bertrand Russell

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Vladimir Nabokov

Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller

Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love. - Emma Watson

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony. - C S Lewis

You don't have to be smart to laugh at farts, but you have to be stupid not to. - Louis C.K.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A word to the wise ain't necessary. It's the stupid ones who need the advice. - Bill Cosby

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. - Voltaire

If you think your boss is stupid remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was smarter. - Albert Grant

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away. - Jack Nicholson

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. - Martin Luther King Jr.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. - Sam Levenson

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly. - Marcus Aurelius

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano. - Margot Asquith

TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public. - Douglas Coupland

Free trade is terrible. Free trade can be wonderful if you have smart people. But we have stupid people. - Donald Trump

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive, but do not forget. - Thomas Szasz

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity. - Dwight D Eisenhower

My parents live in a retirement community, which is basically a minimum-security prison with a golf course. - Joel Warshaw

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind, the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. - Arthur Schopenhauer

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he. - Karl Kraus

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix social security, that's not a very good starting point. - Rob Portman

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself. - George Bernard Shaw

Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don't have a plan. - Larry Winget

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady, and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat. - P.J. O'Rourke

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? - Scott Adams

There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you. - Niccolo Machiavelli

You're supposed to eat the cows. They're great big lumbering, stupid things - they'd be everywhere if we didn't eat them. - Dylan Moran

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. - Sloan Wilson