Jon Richardson

A 'nidiot' is something different from an idiot. An idiot is someone whose problems are caused by not concentrating enough. A 'nidiot' is someone who makes his life more complicated by thinking too much rather than not enough. I'm not an idiot, but I'm definitely a 'nidiot'!

English Comedian

Gino D'Acampo

I think if you're a good person and you show that you learned from all the mistakes that you made you move on with your life. Everybody will accept that. Only an idiot will not accept that or keep reminding you of it and keep pointing that finger.

Italian Chef

Ralph Bunche

We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

American Diplomat

Kevin Bacon

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

American Actor

Robert Scoble

People thought I was an idiot, but I saw social networks were going to be more important, and it turned out to be true.

American Author

Patricia Heaton

Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.

American Actress

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

French Writer

George Jean Nathan

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

American Editor

David Draiman

American Musician

Anthony Bourdain

Used casually among friends, it might be less offensive but still be careful with usage.

Casual Insult

While sometimes playful, it's essentially negative and can hurt feelings.

Negative Connotation

Avoid using 'idiot' in professional or formal settings as it's inappropriate.

Not Professional

The medical use is outdated and considered offensive, use modern terms like 'intellectual disability'.

Outdated Term

Used to describe someone lacking knowledge, not necessarily overall intelligence.

Lack of Knowledge

Often highlights a single area of ignorance rather than a general lack of smarts.

Ignorance Highlighted

Historically used in law but not acceptable now; modern legal documents do not use it.

Historical Legal Use

 That fear of being seen as an awful idiot is a threat reaction from a primitive part of your brain that's very hard to control. It's the fight or flight response, a self-protective process seen in a range of animals, most of which don't give speeches. But we have a wise partner in the study of freaking out.

The science of stage...

 You're too lazy to do it. It's too hard. You're afraid if you look for your passion and don't find it, you'll feel like you're an idiot, so then you make excuses about why you're not going to look for your passion. They are excuses, ladies and gentlemen. We're going to go through a whole long list --

Larry Smith: Why you...

 and they all told him, "Don't you know that everybody thinks you're an idiot, and the whole country's making fun of you?" And he said, "That's my job. I'm a poet, and I'm going to play the fool. Most people have to go to work all day long, and they come home and they fight with their spouse,

Give yourself permission...

 And I want you to look at the supporting characters. Who are the people who are helping you to uphold the wrong version of this story? For instance, if the woman who wrote me that letter told her friends what happened, they would probably offer her what's called "idiot compassion."

How changing your story...

 and I just know it I know what we're not asking I know the idiots got the gun oh honey and I'm thinking to myself well I can't just blatantly ask Steve if he's got a gun in his pocket and I said tell me you still don't have that fire problem in your pocket yeah I do I'm

Cop Killer PIPE National...

 focus on what they do, and move in a more step-by-step thinking pattern. They're both perfectly good ways of thinking. We need both of them to get ahead. In fact, there's many more male geniuses in the world. And there's also many more male idiots in the world.

Why we love, why we...

 like a bunch of blundering idiots what do you think the response is gonna be I the responses mostly will be no but as the toughest cell because the felmers tough sell because of me both that meaning I'm not so optimistic so can you help me I need help I can

The greatest TED Talk...

 idiots oh hang on come through neil we're on the patio oh lovely morning for a spot jogging oh that's a nasty cloud in the sky looks like it's gonna uh it's gonna rain oh i better get back inside i don't want something to count

A Grumpy Shoebill...

 "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

Why should you read...

 words of adoration and words of contempt you're stupid idiot and I wish you had never been born when I confronted her about having said this to me I was told

Idiot