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Definition of Idiot
Idiot
A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.

An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus.

A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool; a natural; an innocent.

A fool; a simpleton; -- a term of reproach.

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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
Mark Twain

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

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 usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
John Lennon

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Steven Wright

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
George Carlin

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
William Blake



Idiot Translations
idiot in Dutch is idioot
idiot in French is idiot
idiot in Italian is idiota
idiot in Norwegian is idiot
idiot in Swedish is idiot


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