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“If we've learned anything from the best-selling Diary of a Wimpy Kid children's book series, it's that those who see themselves surrounded by idiots are usually idiots themselves.”
— Jakob Augstein, in "Stubborn and Egotistical: Europe Is Right to Doubt German Euro Leadership" in Spiegel Online (25 March 2013)
“All right! I confess, I confess. I confess to your being a bigger idiot than I thought.”
— Robert Holmes, in lines written for the fourth incarnation of The Doctor, in response to his being tortured in the Doctor Who episode The Deadly Assassin (30 October 1976)
“Qui autem dixerit fratri suo, Raca: reus erit concilio.”
— But whoever will have called his brother, 'Idiot,', shall be liable to the council.
“Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, as quoted in The Seattle Massacre : The Ripper Case Series (2011) by J. J. Knight, p. vii
“The idiot heard the sounds, but they had no meaning for him. He lived inside somewhere, apart, and the little link between word and significance hung broken.”
— Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human (1953), Ch. 1 : The Fabulous Idiot, p. 1
“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
— Mark Twain, in a draft manuscript (c.1881), quoted in Mark Twain: A Biography (1912) by Albert Bigelow Paine, p. 724

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