STUPIDITY

Related Subjects: Awkwardness, Boredom, Ignorance, Superstition

1. Your true dull minds are generally preferred for public employ, and especially promoted to city honors; your keen intellects, like razors, being considered too sharp for common service.—WASHINGTON IRVING, Knickerbocker's History
   of New York
   

2. Dreadful things are just as apt to happen when stupid people control a situation as when definitely ill-natured people are in charge.—DON MARQUIS,
   Chapters for the Orthodox
   

3. Against stupidity the very gods
   Themselves contend in vain.—SCHILLER, The Maid of Orleans
   

4. There is no sin except stupidity.—OSCAR WILDE, The Critic as Artist