Stupid Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth”
– Stephen Hawking

“I’ve always believed that a person is smart. It’s people that are stupid”
– Marilyn Manson

“I’m a werewolf trapped in a human body.” “Well, yeah, that’s kind of the definition.” “No, really. I’m trapped.” “Oh? When was the last time you shape-shifted?” “That’s just it – I’ve never shape-shifted.” “So you’re not really a werewolf.” “Not yet. But I was meant to be one, I just know it. How do I get a werewolf to attack me?” Stand in the middle of a forest under a full moon with a raw steak tied to your face, holding a sign that says, ‘Eat me; I’m stupid’”
– Carrie Vaughn

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish”
– Euripides

“Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand”
– Bertrand Russell

“If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off”
– Kurt Vonnegut

“One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphood was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn’t be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn’t understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid. He was renowned for being amazingly clever and quite clearly was so—but not all the time, which obviously worried him, hence, the act. He preferred people to be puzzled rather than contemptuous”
– Douglas Adams

“The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“Longbottom, if brains were gold, you’d be poorer than Weasley, and that’s saying something”
– J.K. Rowling

“The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“If you’re gonna be stupid you gotta be tough”
– John Grisham

“Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe”
– Frank Zappa

“Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth”
– Joseph Joubert

“I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statemen”
– Robert Jordan

“He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn’t have time to sleep”
– Tamora Pierce

“Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit”
– Jim C. Hines

“Can’t you see that I’m only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb”
– Titus Petronius Niger

“I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is ignorant of one thing or another. They know that, to another intelligent person, they will not appear stupid in asking for an explanation of what they do not know, and so their ignorance on any particular issue does not become an embarrassment”
– Lynsay Sands

“I love stupid plans”
– Megan Whalen Turner

“Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity”
– Toba Beta

“Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked”
– Richard Buckminster Fuller

“Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity”
– Robert A. Heinlein

“Well, speaking as a feminist, I’m glad that women can lead–uh, groups of unspeakable magical evil.” “Yes,” Alan said gravely. “It’d be shocking if the evil magicians were sexist. For one thing, that would mean they were stupid, and having stupid enemies would be a terrible blow to my manly pride”
– Sarah Rees Brennan

“In Madeleine’s face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable”
– Jeffrey Eugenides

“When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine’s Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwah, I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying, and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression. Plus, of course, friendship—though I like to think that my reaction would have been the same if I hadn’t known Salman at all. To re-state the premise of the argument again: the theocratic head of a foreign despotism offers money in his own name in order to suborn the murder of a civilian citizen of another country, for the offense of writing a work of fiction. No more root-and-branch challenge to the values of the Enlightenment (on the bicentennial of the fall of the Bastille) or to the First Amendment to the Constitution, could be imagined. President George H.W. Bush, when asked to comment, could only say grudgingly that, as far as he could see, no American interests were involved”
– Christopher Hitchens

“I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise”
– Blaise Pascal

“I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I’ve got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And when a girl comes along who has about twice the regular allowance, she too often makes a bee line for me with the love light in her eyes. I don’t know how to account for it, but it is so.” “It may be Nature‘s provision for maintaining the balance of the species, sir”
– P.G. Wodehouse

“Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions”
– Gustave Flaubert

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