A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

He that makes himself an ass must not take it ill if men ride him.

Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.

Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine who are actually the ten stupidest members of the Legislature. Two years ago, there were thirty-seven official nominees and several write-ins.

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing it is always from the noblest motive.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.