Borderline Stupidity

There is no sin except stupidity. - Oscar Wilde

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal. - Ellsworth Huntington

You can't fix stupid - not even with duct tape. - Unknown

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. - Friedrich von Schiller

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. - Joseph Addison

A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence. - Otto von Bismarck

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. - Edith Sitwell

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. - Bertrand Russell

Above all else, guard your heart, for it affects everything else you do. - Unknown

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Vladimir Nabokov

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid. - Hedy Lamarr

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity. - Sheldon B. Kopp

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. - Chanakya

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa

To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it. - George Bernard Shaw

I'm sorry I hurt your feelings when I called you stupid. I thought you already knew. - Unknown

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. - Lord Chesterfield

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. - George Carlin

I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation. - John W. Thompson

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. - Jane Austen

If you would perfect your body, guard your mind.
If you would renew your body, beautify your mind. - James Allen

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity. - Dwight D Eisenhower

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind, the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. - Arthur Schopenhauer

We're all trying to keep up in this stupid race. But that won't be much fun when we're floating in space. - John Symeou

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity there ain't nothing can beat teamwork. - Mark Twain

Thoughts are like arrows: once released, they strike their mark. Guard them well, or one day you may be your own victim. - Navajo Proverb

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. - Mark Twain

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself. - George Bernard Shaw

When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?" - Steven Wright

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? - Scott Adams

The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it. - Peter F Drucker

There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. - Albert Einstein

These are stupid people that say, "Oh didn't Trump declare bankruptcy? Didn't he go bankrupt?" I didn't go bankrupt. - Donald Trump

Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on the table. - Joe Biden