That thing called “Stupid”

Read at your own risk. 😛

 

As you get older, you don’t really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark. Deryck Whibley
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. Thomas Sowell
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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. Albert Einstein
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody’s ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the ‘n’ word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren’t pretty or they weren’t rich or they weren’t clever. Maya Angelou
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True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity. Bo Bennett
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Image from Miriam Defensor Santiago’s “Stupid is Forever” book.

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