Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

––Euripides

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

––Heinrich Heine

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

––Albert Einstein

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

 ––Frank Dane

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

––Edith Sitwell

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

––Konrad Adenauer

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

––Martin Luther King, Jr

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

––Bertrand Russell

There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.

––Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.             

––Nick Diamos

If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?                     

  ––Will Rogers

 

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