I'd rather be rich than stupid. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Mountains have a grand, stupid, lovable tranquillity. [ O. W. Holmes ]
Clever people never listen and stupid people never talk. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
A clever woman has millions of born foes - all stupid men. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]
Stupid stoics! you want to change man, and you destroy him! [ Voltaire ]
It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
The world is stupid, the world is blind, becomes daily more absurd. [ Heine ]
I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people. [ Carlyle ]
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing it is always from the noblest motive. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
One self-approving hour whole years outweighs of stupid starers and of loud huzzas. [ Pope ]
Stupid people move like lay-figures, while every joint of an intelligent man is eloquent. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act. [ Ludwig Tieck ]
Intelligent people make many blunders, because they never believe the world as stupid as it is. [ Chamfort ]
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: a very stupid daughter of a very wise mother. [ Voltaire ]
Stupid people and uneducated people do not care for nice discriminations. They always have decided opinions. [ William Black ]
Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it. [ Haliburton ]
A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes there is no virtue but on his own side. [ Addison ]
The wise are instructed by reason, ordinary minds by experience; the stupid by necessity; and brutes by instinct. [ Cicero ]
There are men who pride themselves on their insensibility to love: it is like boasting of having been always stupid. [ S. de Castres ]
It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway. [ Ouida ]
Success resembles a generous wine which begins by exciting the intellectual faculties, and ends by plunging us into a stupid intoxication. [ Alfred Bougeart ]
There is but one class of men to be trembled at, and that is the stupid class, the class that cannot see; who, alas! are mainly they that will not see. [ Carlyle ]
Sydney Smith playfully says that commonsense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs. [ Whipple ]
We meet with few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between, these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth. [ La Bruyere ]