Subject: Intelligence » Stupidity (Page 4)

I don't want to elect anyone stupid enough to want the job.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

I tell you boy, the wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead.

(1962 – ) American ventriloquist & stand-up comedian

She is so stupid… when you said it was chilly outside she went and got a bowl.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

(1838 – 1918) journalist, historian, academic & novelist

What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? … I'm just noting the timing, here.

(1951 – ) American conservative radio talk-show host

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around; but when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

She is so slow… she has to speed up to stop.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Couldn’t find his rear with his hands in his back pockets

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

(1957 – ) cartoonist (Dilbert)

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

1865 – 1959) American art historian

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

(1951 – ) American conservative radio talk-show host

What he lacks in intelligence, he makes up for in stupidity.

The boy's about as sharp as a bowling ball.

cartoon character (Mel Blanc)

I come from a stupid family… during the Civil War my great uncle fought for the west!

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

He is so stupid… mind readers charge him half price.

It is safe to wager that every public idea and every accepted convention is sheer foolishness, because it has suited the majority.

(1741 – 1794) French writer

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.

(1963 – ) Canadian writer, actor & stand-up comedian

If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate.

(1948 – ) English novelist