Idiot Quotes

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. (Cicero)
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. View quote
Salvador Dalí
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? View quote
George Carlin
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. View quote
Douglas Adams
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. View quote
Mark Twain
[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot. View quote
Groucho Marx
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. View quote
John Updike
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot. View quote
John Lennon
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. View quote
Steven Wright
You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. (Stanley Kubrick)
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. View quote
William Blake
To generalize is to be an idiot. View quote
William Blake
Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot. View quote
Charles Bukowski
The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius. View quote
Sid Caesar
If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord. View quote
Johann Sebastian Bach
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot. View quote
Steve Martin
To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess. View quote
William Blake
If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder. View quote
H. L. Mencken
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot. View quote
Manuel Puig
For someone who's smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot. (Gordon Korman)
I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of. View quote
Hugh Leonard
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. View quote
Horace Mann
I am not a complete idiot, but whether from weakness or laziness have no talent for thinking. I know only how to reflect: I am a mirror ... Logic does not exist for me. I float on the waves of art and life and never really know how to distinguish what belongs to the one or the other or what is common to both. Life unfolds for me like a theatre presenting a sequence of somewhat unreal sentiments; while the things of art are real to me and go straight to my heart. View quote
Sviatoslav Richter
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man. View quote
William Hazlitt