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title: "7 People Ridiculous Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [“The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them." (…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-maher/the-problem-is-that-the-people-with-the-most-ridiculous-ideas-are/)

[Bill Maher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-maher/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/396/bill-maher-211_problem-people_the-problem-is-that-the-people-with-the_118608.jpg)

> [The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-maher/the-problem-is-that-the-people-with-the-most-ridiculous-ideas-are-2/)

[Bill Maher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-maher/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/748/bill-maher-211_certain_the-problem-is-that-the-people-with-the_484719.png)

> [Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-chandler-haliburton/nicknames-stick-to-people-and-the-most-ridiculous-are-the-most/)

[Thomas Chandler Haliburton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-chandler-haliburton/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d89/thomas-chandler-haliburton-996_adhesive_nicknames-stick-to-people-and-the-most-r_604719.png)

> [Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-steele/vanity-makes-people-ridiculous-pride-odious-and-ambition-terrible/)

[Richard Steele](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-steele/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/435/richard-steele-8781_ambition_vanity-makes-people-ridiculous-pride-odi_640771.png)

> [People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/people-are-so-ridiculous-with-their-illusions-carrying-their-fool-s/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f3/george-eliot-84_caps_people-are-so-ridiculous-with-their-illu_1089856.png)

> [People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giacomo-leopardi/people-are-ridiculous-only-when-they-try-or-seem-to-be-that-which/)

[Giacomo Leopardi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giacomo-leopardi/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17f/giacomo-leopardi-9404_people_people-are-ridiculous-only-when-they-try_1429453.jpg)

> [“people were so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's were transparent,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/people-were-so-ridiculous-with-their-illusions-carrying-their-fool-s/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/891/george-eliot-84_illusions_people-were-so-ridiculous-with-their-ill_1968356.jpg)

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