"Heimskuleg" spakmæli: Þriðji hluti

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

       A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.    P. J. O'Rourke

       Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

       Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.

       Facts are stupid things.   Ronald Reagan

       Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.    Elbert Hubbard

       It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.  George Bernard Shaw

       Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. Redd Foxx

       The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.  Art Spander

       Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

       Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. Frank Leahy

       To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Gustave Flaubert

       To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. Voltaire

       The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity. Harlan Ellison

       Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. Heinrich Heine

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

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

       There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. Robertson Davies

       You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.  Scott Adams

       The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

       Lois McMaster Bujold, "Brothers in Arms"

       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

       Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. Bertrand Russell

       At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and pros elytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas. Aldous Huxley

       Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.  Stephen Vizinczey.

       A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. Bertrand Russell

       When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. George Bernard Shaw

       The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.  Thomas Szasz.

       Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. Miss Piggy

       One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)