Borderline Stupidity

I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid. - Terry Bradshaw

Rascality has limits; stupidity has not. - Napoleon

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal. - Ellsworth Huntington

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

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

A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence. - Otto von Bismarck

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

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

The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits. - Alexandre Dumas

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

People think a Muslim has to have a turban or a big beard. It's stupid. - T-Pain

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity. - Sheldon B. Kopp

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

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

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa

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

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

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. - Lord Chesterfield

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

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. - George Carlin

What a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. - C S Lewis

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

You might be a nurse if you firmly believe that "too stupid to live" should be a diagnosis. - Unknown

I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train. - Robbie Coltrane

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. - Joseph Addison

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

We're all trying to keep up in this stupid race. But that won't be much fun when we're floating in space. - John Symeou

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity there ain't nothing can beat teamwork. - Mark Twain

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. - Mark Twain

When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?" - Steven Wright

The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it. - Peter F Drucker

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama

Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on the table. - Joe Biden

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. - Oscar Wilde