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1->''"To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say,\
2Is a keen observer of life,\
3The word "intellectual" suggests straightaway\
4A man who's untrue to his wife."''
5-->-- '''Creator/WHAuden'''
6
7->''"How sweet to be an Idiot,\
8As harmless as a cloud,\
9Too small to hide the sun\
10Almost poking fun,\
11At the warm but insecure untidy crowd.\
12\
13How sweet to be an idiot,\
14And dip my brain in joy,\
15Children laughing at my back,\
16With no fear of attack,\
17As much retaliation as a toy."''
18-->-- '''Neil Innes''', "How Sweet to Be an Idiot"
19
20->''"Yeah...she's dumb, but...but sweet."''
21-->--'''[[{{Series/Community}} Troy Barnes]]''' describing a fake girlfriend, [[IResembleThatRemark and also incidentally describing himself]].
22
23->''"I want to be good but good is being simple,\
24Simple is forgetting,\
25I simply can't forget."''
26-->-- '''The Judybats''', "Being Simple"
27
28->''"What did you learn today?\
29I learned nothin\
30What did you do today?\
31I did nothin\
32What did you learn at school?\
33I didn't go\
34Why didn't you go to school?\
35I don't know\
36It's cool to know nothin..."''
37-->-- '''Music/KaiserChiefs''', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz40P1hFvWs Never Miss a Beat]]"
38
39->''"Come, come, let us all be dumb,\
40I swear it is true it is best to be stupid!,\
41A puny mind is simply divine,\
42Intelligence and elegance, make far less sense than being dense...\
43Dance break!"''
44-->-- '''Potato Bug''', ''Series/TheMrPotatoHeadShow''
45
46->''"God only gives you 26 seconds of 'tard happy in your LIFETIME... enjoy it."''
47-->-- '''Ralphie May'''
48
49->''"Take a smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella."''
50-->-- '''Slim''', ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen''
51
52->''"Averagely wise a man should be,\
53never too wise,\
54for a wise man's heart is seldom cheerful\
55if the one who owns it is too wise."''
56-->-- ''Literature/PoeticEdda'', "Sayings of the High One"
57
58->''"The stupider one is, the closer one is to reality. The stupider one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself. Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward."''
59-->-- ''Literature/TheBrothersKaramazov''
60
61->''"A small mind is easily filled with faith."''
62-->-- '''[[ThePoliticalOfficer Commissar Exen Treuer]]''', Mordian 23rd, ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''
63
64->''"Look at the happy moron,\
65He doesn't give a damn\
66I wish I were a moron\
67Dear God, perhaps I am!"''
68-->-- '''Unknown'''
69
70->''"Your heart's in the right place, Rose, but I don't know where the hell your brain is."''
71-->-- '''Sophia Petrillo''', ''Series/TheGoldenGirls''
72
73->"Great men are not always wise." ― The Literature/BookOfJob XXXII, Verse 9
74-->-- '''Epitaph of [[spoiler:Roger the Homunculus]]''', ''ComicBook/{{BPRD}}''
75
76->''"I think the people of this country have had enough of experts".''
77-->-- Michael Gove, anti-intellectual British Politician
78
79->"''Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.''"
80-->-- '''Creator/BertrandRussell'''
81
82->"''Richard Nixon is easily one of the most controversial figures to ever hold public office, but he certainly isn’t one of the dumbest. He reportedly had an IQ of 142.9, which actually makes him the 16th-dumbest president, technically. It just goes to show that intelligence can’t be everything, since a lot of people with lower [=IQs=] did a lot better in office.''"
83-->-- Definition.org
84
85->''"Blessed is the mind too small for doubt."''
86-->-- '''Imperial proverb''', ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''
87
88->'''Yoko''': "You're telling me that your excuse is that your captain is too ''stupid'' to be evil!?"
89->'''Cross''': "It's a ''good'' excuse!"
90-->-- ''Fanfic/ThisBites''
91
92->''"What Spardels lack in intelligence, they more than make up for with love."''
93-->-- '''Item description of the [[DogsAreDumb Spardel]]''', ''{{Website/Neopets}}''

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