Subject: Intelligence » Stupidity (Page 4)

Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

My father was stupid; he worked in a bank and they caught him stealing pens.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

It’s easy to identify people who can’t count to ten; they’re in front of you in the supermarket express lane.

She’s so stupid… if you give her a penny for her thoughts, you'll get change back.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

(1797 – 1856) German critic & poet

Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

I would have made a good Pope.

(1913 – 1994) 37th U.S. president

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

(1962 – ) American ventriloquist & stand-up comedian

It [feminism] is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

(1930 – ) American Southern Baptist minister, executive & media mogul

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

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

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.

(1741 – 1794) French writer

One thing that humbles me deeply is to see that human genius has its limits while human stupidity does not.

(1824 – 1895) French writer

He is so stupid… it takes him an hour to cook Minute Rice.

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

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

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

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

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

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

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

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