Johann Georg Zimmermann Quotes

A well-read fool is the most pestilent of blockheads; his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle, and with which he breaks his neighbor's shins as well as his own. Keep a fellow of this description at arm's length, as you value the integrity of your bones.

Erskine is really a greater fool than I could have thought it possible to be and it is charity to give him that name.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Folly growes without watering.

You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.

He's Black Council," I said. "Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered. I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier." Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day.

You can only be stupid when you're young.

Stupidity fuses notoriety and celebrity.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Fools are without number.

You have to be quite stupid to act.

There were the giants, great of stature and expert in war.... They perished because they had no wisdom; they perished through their own foolishness.

... a fool

Stupidity took me pretty far.

Being young and dumb, honestly, you pick up some bad habits.

There's an expression in Yiddish, which is "der gelernte naar" - a "learned fool." You can know a great deal, you can have a Ph.D., and you can still be a total idiot.

Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense

If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take apart the watch, pull out the spring and make a toy of it, and are then surprised when the watch stops working.

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.

It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.