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An idiot, in modern use, is a stupid or foolish person. 'Idiot' was formerly a technical term in legal and psychiatric contexts for some kinds of profound intellectual disability where the mental age is two years or less, and the person cannot guard themself against common physical dangers.
The quotations are known as "the rope" ("The capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them") and the "deaf, dumb and blind". For example, William J. Bennett alleged that "'Useful idiot' was the term Lenin had used for credulous Western businessmen", giving as an example Armand Hammer "who helped build up the Soviet Communist state ...
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Definition Stupidity is a quality or state of being stupid, or an act or idea that exhibits properties of being stupid. [ 4 ] In a character study of "The Stupid Man" attributed to the Greek philosopher Theophrastus (c. 371 – c. 287 BC), stupidity was defined as "mental slowness in speech or action".
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing. William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V, lines 17–28
"It's the economy, stupid" is a catchphrase that means that the primary concern of American voters is the state of the U.S. economy, and how the economy affects their personal finances.
Science fiction writer and critic Damon Knight, in his 1956 collection In Search of Wonder, says that the term may have originated with author James Blish. [1]: 26 Knight went on to coin the term second-order idiot plot as a narrative "in which not merely the principals, but everybody in the whole society has to be a grade-A idiot, or the story couldn't happen".
Suffer fools gladly is a phrase in contemporary use, first coined by Saint Paul in his second letter to the Church at Corinth ().The full verse of the original source of the idiom, 2 Corinthians 11:19 (), reads "For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise."