...pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect.

People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.

I am not sure how evil religion by nature is, but I have no doubt of its stupidity and insanity in practice.

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying.It was:'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?

Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

Not stupid. Overly trusting, maybe, but that reflects on his lack of trustworthiness, not on your intelligence.

What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.

Don't let your teeth make you lose respect by permanently keeping them opened for the sake of being friendly.