“The stupider one is, the closer one is to reality. The stupider one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself. Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.”
The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)
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Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
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Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher
Mauvaises Pensées et Autres (1941)
John Derbyshire (1945) writer
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Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
"The Brooklyn Divines." Brooklyn Union (Brooklyn, NY), 1883.
“A stupid lie is one that can never make itself believed.”
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“Military intelligence was as nothing to military stupidity.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
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Arsène Wenger (1949) French footballer and manager
On José Mourinho, (November 2005) http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/4398238.stm <br class="br">Context: He's out of order, disconnected with reality and disrespectful. When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.