“Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be relied on to flutter the lunch party. Whatever will he say next? How does he think of those things? He has been deplored once or twice, but feeling is in his favor: he is steadily read. He is at once the truly clever person and the stupid person's idea of the clever person; he is expected to be relentless, to administer intellectual shocks.” ThinkingMenPersonsLongDoeHas BeensIdeasFeelingsYoungNextPartyStupidLong TimeIntellectualExpectedFavorsCleverYoung ManShockLunchPerpetualRelentlessNephewHuxleyStupid PersonClever Person Author:Elizabeth Bowen
“No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.” ShouldPersonsTimePlansStupidStrategyStupidityConcentrationWrong ThingsWrong TimeStupid Person Author:Charles E. Wilson
“You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.” BelievePersonsHappensStupidProtectDon't BelieveDemoralizingStupid Person Author:Paul Auster
“If you do not read and listen to the opposite ideas, you can always remain a stupid person! Opposite ideas, however contrary they may sound, are your greater chances on the way to truth!” IfsWayMayPersonsIdeasSoundChanceGreaterStupidOppositesContraryStupid Person Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“I have seen [Betsy DeVos] present a few times. I don't really know her. But I have seen her present on education policy, and she's not a stupid person.” KnowsPersonsStupidPolicyStupid Person Author:David Brooks
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” ThinkingLifePersonsHumorFunnyHumanityRealizingHalfStupidAverageWittyStupidityComedianStupid PeopleAverage PersonEye OpeningStupid Person Author:George Carlin
“Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time.” IfsWritingLittlesPersonsSeemsBitsCan DoStupidLittle BitIntelligentAverageStoresNovelistsDepartmentImprovingHalfwayBicycleCosmeticsPumpsConsultantsDepartment StoresStupid PersonBlimps Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.” ThinkingBelieveMeanPersonsFactsI BelieveStupidConservativeObviousGentlemanStupid Person Author:John Stuart Mill