Quotes about idiot
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“Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots”
Variant: He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
“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
“There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.”
“I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending”
Source: Between the Lines
“who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.”
Source: Why We Broke Up
“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).
Source: Saving Francesca
“Blessed are the idiots, for they are happiest people on earth.”
Source: Bridge of Birds
1990s
Source: [Can Man Live Without God, 1994, 9780849939433, 12]
“A village somewhere was missing it's idiot.”
Source: Drop Dead Gorgeous
“The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.”
“What are you doing?"
"Looking for my fangs."
"We don't grow fangs you idiot!”
Source: A Living Nightmare
Source: Froi of the Exiles
“Who is he?"
"An idiot, said Adrian. "Makes me look like an upstanding member of society.”
Source: Last Sacrifice
“We're being led by an idiot with a crayon.”
Variant: We're being lead by an idiot with a crayon.
Source: The Arctic Incident
“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
“I know, I'm an idiot!" Leo moaned. "A brilliant idiot, but still an idiot.”
Source: The Demigod Diaries
“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error”
“Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot.”
Source: Just Like Heaven
1790s, Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler (1799)
“Clearly," said Arthur,"you're an idiot- but you're our kind of idiot. Come on.”
Source: The Book Thief
“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.”
“You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.”
“I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991), Chapter 18 (p. 549)
“There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.”
Source: Black Skin, White Masks (1952)
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
Source: Magic Binds
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.
Source: Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
“Romantic Egoist
What's better, an idiot who never tries… or an idiot who at least takes a shot?”
Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 2
“You're thinking I'm a hopelessly romantic idiot.
And you know what?
You're right.”
Source: What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know
“You, your grandmother, the chairman----YOU'RE ALL ABUNCH OF FRIGGIN' IDIOTS!!!"
~Haruhi”
Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 16
“Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me.”
Source: The Trouble with Kings
“And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?”
Source: Ender's Shadow
Source: The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories
Source: An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
“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.
“You are not my high school crush, idiot.”
“Great. I can die happy, then.”
Source: Glass Houses
Source: Magic Bleeds - Awake
“To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!”
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“There are idiots in every crowd.”
Source: Deadly Night
“The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.”
Source: Middlemarch
Source: Magic Strikes
“Idiots, Halt muttered. If we were here to cause trouble, we could simply ride them both down”
Source: The Kings of Clonmel