Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.