Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.[Unsere größten Dummheiten können sehr weise sein.]
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
On account of the stupidity of some people, or (if talent be a more respectable word), on account of their talent for misconception.[As known as:]Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Nobody need be stupid if they try.
Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.
Men inspired by prophecy will attempt any foolishness in the knowledge that the fates have ordained their victory.
Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.[L’homme est bien insensé: il ne sçauroit forger vn ciron, et forge des Dieux à douzaines.]
It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.
It may at times be the highest wisdom to simulate folly.[Come egli è cosa sapientissima simulare in tempo la pazzia.]
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognise danger when it is close upon you.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.
