50 Quotes About Idiocy

A modicum of idiocy is in everyone, religious people have a little bit more and superstitious are full of it.

Now that I think about it, it seems to me that’s what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you like, so that a drawing on the wall does not have to be diminished by the memory of the frescoes of Giotto in Padua.

If we accept the Greek’s definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many citizens of many societies are indeed idiots.

On Adventure - Adventure is just another word for trouble.

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

One has to laugh at the idiocy of this vast impersonal universe and leave it at that.

No idiot can say as many stupid things in an hour as a public intellectual.

Only idiots are confident. It requires a great amount of wisdom and knowledge to be confused.

Destruction is easily reversed, Brain drainage howbeit is a civilization killer