Idiot Quotes

• Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Quoted in Albert B. Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography (1912)

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  What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

  William Shakespeare

  Eras, Blind, Terrible

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• Who's the bigger idiot, the idiot or the idiot who gets fooled by the idiot?

  Woody Allen

  Bigger, Fooled

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• [He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Crazy

  "Fictional character: Rufus T. Firefly". "Duck Soup", www.imdb.com. 1933.

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• No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

  Mark Twain

  Evidence, Amount

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• Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mistake, Failure, Philosophical

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• The worst kind of idiot is the one who doesn't think they're an idiot.

  Jeff Garlin

  Thinking, Kind, Worst

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• It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

  Scott Adams

  Dilbert, Danger, Closed Minded

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.439, Penguin

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• Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

  Anton Chekhov

  Life, Success, Morning

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• More idiots should just shut their mouths.

  Chris Martin

  Village Idiots, Mouths, Should

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• Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.

  Patricia Briggs

  Fear

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• Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.

  Jim Butcher

  Village, Somewhere Out There, Deprived

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.1075, Penguin

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  Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Carlin on Campus". Documentary, Comedy, 1984.

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• As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Blessed are the idiots, for they are happiest people on earth.

  Barry Hughart

  Blessed, People, Earth

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• The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Cynical, Doctrine

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Notes On Democracy”, p.76, Knopf

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• First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Firsts, Innovators

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• When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

  Mark Twain

  World, Proof, Made

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• I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Successful, Ifs

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• Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Mind, Village Idiots, Refuse

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• Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

  Rick Cook

  Winning, Technology, Race

  "The Wizardry Compiled". Book by Rick Cook, 1989.

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• Once you're able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential.

  Nicole Sullivan

  Looks, Able

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Insperational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 02, 2016

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