Thomas Sowell Quotes

There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

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

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived.

I may not be Einstein but I know dumb plus dumb equals you.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

I never said I was a genius.

There are going to be screw-ups, mistakes, confusion, and missteps. One hopes they won’t be fatal.

Beauty fades, stupid is forever.

Tina Fey is my hero. Some of the most brilliant people don't come off as brilliant.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.

But I don't think Art's an Einstein - he likes tugging ears, biting people and burping too much to be a genius.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid than open it and remove all doubt? (Hakim al Harbi)

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

Stupid people are dangerous.

Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.

Question is, are you bozos smart enough to feel stupid?

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.