Mamacita says:  What’s that?  STUPIDITY?  How intensely politically incorrect!

Gotta love something that’s politically incorrect!  Well, I do, anyway.  Euphemisms are for the weak.  Euphemisms cheapen our language, and draw our attention away from important things.

1. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. — Albert Einstein

2. Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do. — Bertrand Russell

3. A word to the wise ain’t necessary, it’s the stupid ones who need the advice. — Bill Cosby

4. Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. — Elbert Hubbard

5. With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. — Friedrich von Schiller

6. When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together. — Isaac Asimov

7. The dumbest people I know are those who know it all. — Malcolm Forbes

8. First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards. — Mark Twain

9. A stupid person should keep silent. But if he knew this, he would not be a stupid person. — Muslih-ud-Din Saadi

10. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. — Plato

11. Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. — Oscar Wilde

12. It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful. — Anton Lavey

13. There is no sin except stupidity. –Oscar Wilde

14. The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. — Voltaire

15. Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider! — George Carlin

16. The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. — Harlan Ellison

17. Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance. — William Gaddis

18. In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity. — Konrad Adenauer

19. Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it. — Pope John Paul II

20. There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. — Frank Zappa

21. Stupidity is evil waiting to happen. — Clay Bond

22. When stupidity is a sufficient explanation, there is no need to have recourse to any other. — Mitchell Ulmann

23. Always you have to contend with the stupidity of men. — Henry David Thoreau

24. Stupidity should be painful. — Anonymous

25. You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think. –Talmud

26. He who is born a fool is never cured. — Proverbs

27. By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed. — African proverb

28. Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. — P.J. O’Rourke

29. Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. — Frank Leahy 

30. Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion. — Gustave Flaubert

31. I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. — Edith Sitwell

32. …right now there’s no rehab for stupidity. — Chris Rock

33. In politics stupidity is not a handicap. — Napoleon Bonaparte

34. It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all. — George Gissing

35. Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity. —
Spider Robinson

36. No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

37. Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

38. One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork. — Edward Abbey

39. Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. — Stephen Vizinczey

40. Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity. — Michel de Montaigne

41. Stupidity is a talent for misconception. — Edgar Allan Poe

42. Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. — Gustave Flaubert

43. The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty. — John Steinbeck

44. There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. — Robertson Davies

45. You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. — Scott Adams

46. Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature. — Samuel Johnson

47. When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. — George Bernard Shaw

48. A stupid child is ruin to a father. . . . — Proverbs

49. Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. — -Oscar Wilde

50. There are only two races on this planet-the intelligent and the stupid. — John Fowles

51. I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a ‘learning experience.’ It makes me feel less stupid. — -P.J. O’Rourke

52. It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity – the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension – can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion. — Robertson Davies

53. Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge. — -Horace Mann

54. The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. — -William Osler

55. We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. — -Carl Sagan

56. A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. — Bertrand Russell

57. You can be sincere and still be stupid. — Charles F. Kettering

58. Most fools think they are only ignorant. — Benjamin Franklin

59. A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains. — Maxim Gorky

60. Life is tough, but it’s tougher whenyou’re stupid. –John Wayne

I suppose I should be ashamed of myself now, but I’m not. In fact, I feel purged and refreshed.

What did I leave out? Let me know.