Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization.
Jon Bentley
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard
There are only two races on this planet-the intelligent and the stupid.
John Fowles
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
Sloan Wilson
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
Edwin Land
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
Aristophanes
Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally.
Jim Butcher
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
John Dalberg-Acton, Lord Acton
The world attributes its misfortunes to the schemes and plottings of the very evil and powerful. I think stupidity is underestimated.
Adolfo Bioy Casares