Intellectual Deficiency Quotes

Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

Hard to believe there was ever a world leader as dumb as Donald Trump. Can't spell, can't read, has never managed anything approaching an original thought. His brain is like a radio playing at top volume, but between stations.

I once dated a guy so dumb he could not count to 21 unless he was naked

Stupidity is not my strong suit.

If wine disappeared from human production, I believe there would be, in the health and intellect of the planet, a void, a deficiency far more terrible than all the excesses and deviations for which wine is made responsible. Is it not reasonable to suggest that people that never drink wine, whether naive or doctrinaire, are fools or hypocrites....?

Stupidity is not a crime.

What's wrong with "the new elite?" Forget cultural insularity or smugness. The main problem with the "new elite" is that they're not an elite at all. That is, they aren't particularly smart, or competent.

I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't.

Nature, it appears, has been rather more bountiful to Paul's body and purse than to his intellect; above the ears, speaking bluntly, the boy is strictly tapioca.

You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.

The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. (Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, IV)

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident.

When I looked them in the face, I saw a crowd of imbeciles.

Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.