Subject: Intelligence » Stupidity (Page 2)

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

Your head is as empty as a hermit's address book.

(1955 – ) English actor

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

(1863 – 1941) U.S. senator (California) & U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

You two are just dumber than a bag of hammers.

(1961 – ) American actor, director, producer & screenwriter

When stupidity is a sufficient explanation, there is no need to have recourse to any other.

Stupidity got us into this mess, and stupidity will get us out.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

He couldn’t grow pole beans in a pile of horse shit.

Oh, right! To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! I’ve known sheep that could outwit you. I’ve worn dresses with higher IQs!


Consistence requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

1865 – 1959) American art historian

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

Can't find his ass with two hands and a flashlight

Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.

I would have made a good Pope.

(1913 – 1994) 37th U.S. president

She is so stupid… she can’t make ice without a recipe.

It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try and pass them.

To all you hunters who kill animals for food, shame on you; you ought to go to the store and buy the meat that was made there, where no animals were harmed.

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist

I'd rather be rich than stupid.

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

(1940 – 1993) composer, guitarist, record producer & film director

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there’s scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Exercise freaks… are the ones putting stress on the health care system.

(1951 – ) American conservative radio talk-show host