#stupid

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

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#australia #commuting #england #had #i

I love stupid plans. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

#stupidity #love

Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#funny #i #made #most #stupid

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#gain #general #idea #intelligent #mixed

Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#depends #described #english #everything #eyes

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains. ↗

— Ted Lindsay

#had #managers #owners #realize #stupid

You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually. ↗

— Pete Rose

#does #fans #know #stupid #usually

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid. ↗

— John Fowles

#intelligent #only #planet #races #stupid