No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
Stupid
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
Love is being stupid together.
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid – in which case all comment is superfluous – or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
I don’t think you can rely on Iran. I don’t think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren’t stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.
But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you’re stupid, they have low expectations for you.
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.