“Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity.”
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Jonathan Franzen50
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John Derbyshire (1945) writer
Source: Derb Quotes https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/derb-quotes-john-derbyshire/, National Review, November 20, 2003.
“Military intelligence was as nothing to military stupidity.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Diplomatic Immunity (2002), Chapter 2 (p. 32)
“There are only two races on this planet — the intelligent and the stupid.”
John Fowles (1926–2005) British writer
As quoted in Daily Telegraph (15 August 1991)
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Freeman (1948), p. 155
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.
“I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
“Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.”
Jack London book The Star Rover
The Star Rover
Variant: Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel