“Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.”
Don Winslow (1953) American writer
Source: Rot & Ruin
“Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.”
Don Winslow (1953) American writer
“Angry people are stupid people.”
Donald Miller (1971) American writer
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)
“People--stupid when they lived; potentially stupid when they died.”
Rob Thurman (1950) American writer
Source: Roadkill
“I have a theory that the Internet makes people stupider — and also FOX News makes people stupider.”
Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian
Larry King Live interview (2010)
Context: I have a theory that the Internet makes people stupider — and also FOX News makes people stupider. You know the Pew group did a study recently and they found out that 10 years ago, Democrats, Republicans and independents basically got their news from the same sources, probably more from CNN, for example. Then we had this polarity. … We do have two Americas. We have the America that's living in reality. The people who understand that Obama is a centrist liberal from Hawaii who is trying to dig us out of the hole we're in. And then we have this other FOX/Matt Drudge/Rush Limbaugh reality where he is a Muslim sleeper cell, Manchurian candidate who was sent over by his Kenyan father …
“You simply cannot tell other people they are stupid, even if they really are stupid.”
Temple Grandin (1947) USA-american doctor of animal science, author, and autism activist
Source: The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger's
“Most people are boring and stupid.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“People are stupider than anybody.”
Tom Lehrer (1928) American singer-songwriter and mathematician
AV Club interview (2000)