Josh Billings Quotes

Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.

You've gotta be slightly stupid.

You can only be stupid when you're young.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Stupidity without malice isn't horrible; some people can't help it.

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

Innocence is ignorance.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

We foolishly did not realize Saddam was stupid.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

All the Khmer leaders and nobles, all the district chiefs and all the common people are ignorant, stupid, foolish and gullible. They have no idea what is true and what is false.

Judging people you don't know for things you don't understand is just really stupid.

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

Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, 'Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.

stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

Stupidity is without anxiety.

The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!

To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.