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Quotations by Subject: Stupidity (21 quotes)

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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Dialogues in Limbo (1925) ch. 3
Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.: Charles Simmons
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.: Jean de la Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), A Tale of Two Cities
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), The Rebel (1951)
- More quotations on: [Hope] [Cowardice]
I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. Birds of the air will tell of murders past. I am asham'd to hear such fooleries!: Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593), Jew of Malta, Prologue

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