Stupid Quotes

There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Hey, girls, you're beautiful. Don't look at those stupid magazines with sticklike models. Eat healthy and exercise. That's all. Don't let anyone tell you you're not good enough. You're good enough, you are too good. Love your family with all your heart and listen to it. You are gorgeous, whether you're a size 4 or 14. It doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, as long as you're a good person, as long as you respect others. I know it's been told hundreds of times before, but it's true. Hey, girls, you are beautiful.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

Evil isn't the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it's a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can't lay this one stupid brick down, you ain't never gonna have a house baby, and it's cold outside.

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick "hard books." Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, "I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth." Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of "literature"? That means fiction, too, stupid.

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

The human race is the most stupid and unfair kind of race. A lot of the runners don't even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water. Some runners are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side. It's not surprising a lot of people have given up compeating altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk and shout abuse. What the human race needs is a lot more streakers.

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of chief of police, but I've never noticed anyone hoping to get wiser. We say to ourselves: it'll be better under a new tsar, and in two hundred years it'll still be better, and nobody tries to make this good time come tomorrow. On the whole, life gets more and more complex every day and moves on its own sweet will, and people get more and more stupid, and get isolated from life in ever-increasing numbers.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness you think it is nice that a box of matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Sweden for they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there?

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world-or been beaten and gassed by Police for trespassing on public property-or been hounded by the IRS for purely political reasons-or locked up in the Cook County Jail with a broken nose and no phone access and twelve perverts wanting to stomp your ass in the shower. That is when it matters who is President or Governor or Police Chief. That is when you will wish you had voted.

Yeah, well, I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid, hopefully. And I think we're all a bit crazy if we do anything that's deviant. I've studied a great deal on deviance and aberrant behavior. Most of the interesting people I've ever met have been deviant in one form or another.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.

I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.

Inherited hatred (i.e. hatred your parents schooled you in) is not only stupid, it is destructive - why make your only driving force hate? Seems really f***ing dumb to me.

Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures!

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that let's you know when to laugh if you're to stupid to know when the joke is.

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.

It’s good to be here. I’m just trying to go through life without looking stupid. It’s not working out too well.

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

While we may continue to use the words smart and stupid, and while IQ tests may persist for certain purposes, the monopoly of those who believe in a single general intelligence has come to an end. Brain scientists and geneticists are documenting the incredible differentiation of human capacities, computer programmers are creating systems that are intelligent in different ways, and educators are freshly acknowledging that their students have distinctive strengths and weaknesses.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.

I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.

When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.

I really can't deny it, I am who I am. I'm pretty normal. I'm not that smooth type of girl. I run into things, I trip, I spill food. I say stupid things... I really don't have it all together.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

Love is being stupid together.

To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't.

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.

I don't care what people think. people are stupid.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Fear can be one of the most destructive emotions. It is, of course, also very important, in that fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgement of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives.

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.

What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid advice that could possibly be given. If we write simply about what we know we never grow. We don't develop any facility for languages, or an interest in others, or a desire to travel and explore and face experience head-on. We just coil tighter and tighter into our boring little selves. What one should write about is what interests one.

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera - - both of which I did as soon as I left the [Acting] Company and was starving.

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

I voted Republican this year; the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.