
„That’s the best thing about being dead. It’s like being stupid. It’s only painful for others.“
— Ricky Gervais English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter 1961
A collection of quotes on the topic of stupidity.
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— Ricky Gervais English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter 1961
— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
Source: 1960s, Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 4 : Love in action, Sct. 3
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
Song lyrics, Nevermind (1991)
— Rick Riordan, book The Blood of Olympus
Variant: Correct." Kekrops sounded bitter, like he regretted his decision. "My people were the original Athenians--the gemini."
"Like your zodiac sign?" Percy asked. "I'm a Leo."
"No, stupid. "I'm a Leo. You're a Percy.
Source: The Blood of Olympus
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963
— Emil M. Cioran, book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
— Ludwig Wittgenstein Austrian-British philosopher 1889 - 1951
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 39e
— Anton LaVey Founder of the Church of Satan, author of the Satanic Bible 1930 - 1997
The Nine Satanic Sins (1987)
— Hedy Lamarr Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping 1914 - 2000
As quoted in The Stars (1962) by Richard Schickel
— Edgar Allan Poe, book The Black Cat
Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?
The Black Cat (1843)
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky Russian author 1821 - 1881
The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)
— William Makepeace Thackeray novelist 1811 - 1863
Sketches and Travels in London; Mr. Brown's Letters to His Nephew: "On Love, Marriage, Men and Women" (1856).
— John Gotti American crime boss 1940 - 2002
— Bertrand Russell, book A History of Western Philosophy
Source: 1940s, A History of Western Philosophy (1945)
— Bertolt Brecht German poet, playwright, theatre director 1898 - 1956
First recorded in Terra Nossa: Newsletter of Project Abraço, North Americans in Solidarity with the People of Brazil http://books.google.gr/books?id=iR68AAAAIAAJ&q=, Vols. 1–7, Resource Center for Nonviolence, 1988, p. 42. No citation to a book by Brecht is given.
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— Terry Brooks, The Wishsong of Shannara
Source: The Wishsong of Shannara
— Thomas Szasz Hungarian psychiatrist 1920 - 2012
"Personal Conduct" http://books.google.com/books?id=IYOcAQAAQBAJ&q=%22The+stupid+neither+forgive+nor+forget+the+na%C3%AFve+forgive+and+forget+the+wise+forgive+but+do+not+forget%22&pg=PA177#v=onepage, p. 51. http://openlibrary.org/works/OL15151528W/The_Second_Sin
The Second Sin (1973)