#stupid

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#intelligence #stupidity #intelligence

The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the “over” and just think, then we could do, too. Only we’d be smarter doers because we’d be thinkers. ↗

— Sarah Strohmeyer

#overthinking #stupidity #intelligence

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#intelligence #stupidity #truth #intelligence

I am not the sharpest knife in the knife-thing. ↗

— Jimmy Dore

#stupidity #intelligence

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

— Frank Zappa

#life #longer #more #shelf #shelf life

Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture. ↗

— George Eliot

#bigotry #harriet-beecher-stowe #jokes #stupidity #education

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#crazy #crazy-people #phoenix #stupid #stupid-people