Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. – The sea witch.
Full oft we see cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them – “ordinary things” is a better expression. That is the way the world is.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
What is toleration? It is the appurtenance of humanity. We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies—it is the first law of nature.
We’re not stupid, we’re just poor! And we have a right to want to insist on this distinction.
Watching TV gives you confidence. When you see how stupid people generally are on the box it makes you feel smart. And scientific studies show that people who feel smart perform better than people who feel stupid.
Time does to the body what stupidity does to the soul.
There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
The loyalty well held to fools does make our faith mere folly.
