Quotes about idiot
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“Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed.

'The first one. I really resent being called the second.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

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“Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots”

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist

Variant: He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

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“It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss.”

Variant: Its hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots.
Source: The Hunger Games

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“I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

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“Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot.”

Source: Culture series, Consider Phlebas (1987), Chapter 2 “The Hand of God 137” (p. 27).

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“A village somewhere was missing it's idiot.”

Linda Howard (1950) American writer

Source: Drop Dead Gorgeous

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“Is that why you didn't call me? Because I'm an idiot?”

Source: City of Glass

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“We're being led by an idiot with a crayon.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Variant: We're being lead by an idiot with a crayon.
Source: The Arctic Incident

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“For someone who's smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.”

Variant: For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.
Source: One False Note

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“Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: Just Like Heaven

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“What is Grand is necessarily obscure to Weak men. That which can be made Explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

1790s, Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler (1799)

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“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.”

Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
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“You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.”

Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor
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“I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.”

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991), Chapter 18 (p. 549)

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“I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Variants:
I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.
I fear the day when technology overlaps our humanity. It will be then that the world will have permanent ensuing generations of idiots.
1995 film Powder includes a similar quotation attributed to Einstein:
It’s become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity.
Although it is a popular quote on the internet, there is no substantial evidence that Einstein actually said that. It does not appear in "The Ultimate Quotable Einstein" from Princeton University Press nor in any reliable source. " Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/19/tech-surpass/" concluded that it probably emerged as a meme on the internet as late as 2012.
Misattributed

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“It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.”

Source: Clockwork Angel

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“If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

Variant: If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.

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“Teach you to try marrying me, you idiot!”

Source: The Sea of Monsters

“Romantic Egoist
What's better, an idiot who never tries… or an idiot who at least takes a shot?”

Bisco Hatori (1975) Japanese manga artist

Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 2

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“You, your grandmother, the chairman----YOU'RE ALL ABUNCH OF FRIGGIN' IDIOTS!!!"

~Haruhi”

Bisco Hatori (1975) Japanese manga artist

Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 16

“Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me.”

Sherwood Smith (1951) American fantasy and science fiction writer

Source: The Trouble with Kings

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“Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.”

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

Source: The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories

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“She gave me the jabs and said I was covered for every worst-case scenario, including being bitten by a dirty chimp. I told her this is why we have over-population problems. Why are idiots who annoy dirty chimps being protected?”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

Source: An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

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“The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.”

Part 2, chapter 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=Xw-DAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+demagogue+is+one+who+preaches+doctrines+he+knows+to+be+untrue+to+men+he+knows+to+be+idiots%22&pg=PA103#v=onepage
1920s, Notes on Democracy (1926)
Context: The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. The demaslave is one who listens to what these idiots have to say and pretends to believe it himself.

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“To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

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“Any idiot can put up a website.”

Source: Blood Bound

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“There are idiots in every crowd.”

Heather Graham (1970) actress from the United States

Source: Deadly Night

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“Idiots, Halt muttered. If we were here to cause trouble, we could simply ride them both down”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Kings of Clonmel