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Stupid is as stupid does.
- the movie Forrest Gump (1994)
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
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Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid;
if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.
- Tony Rothman
Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono
Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Valery
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
- the movie National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
Think of how stupid the average person is,
and realize half of them are stupider than that.
- George Carlin
People are stupid;
given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything.
Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie
because they want to believe it's true,
or because they are afraid it might be true.
- Terry Goodkind
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller 
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
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