Stupid Quotations

Only dumb people are happy.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.

Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.

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

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

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

The internet is a great way to get on the net.

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think you're stupid.

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

We didn't have lawyers and accountants. No one was watching out for our money. We'd go to the office and get money and go on our way. I was 19-20 years old then. I was stupid. I didn't know any better. We weren't getting our fair share of the money. That happens to young musicians all the time. It makes me mad when I think how stupid we were.

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.

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

If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort Inn, you've got your Best Western, and you've got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody's very fat, everybody's very stupid and everybody's very rude - it's not a holiday programme, it's the truth.

My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions

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.

I'm pretty sarcastic, and sometimes that doesn't come across on the Internet. It seems I'm being rude or 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.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy.

I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.

I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

I try not to worry about what that's going to look like. If you worry about looking stupid, that's when you look really stupid.

Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.

Every business I don't know, if I spend enough time - a couple of months - I will know a lot. I know quite a lot about football now. I know the value of players, and we won't do stupid things.

I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people.

It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do.

Trust me: not everyone is on the Adriane Lenox bandwagon. I'm not stupid enough to think that.

The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?

This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

I've learned people are watching, so don't do nothing stupid.

I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes?

When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died.

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

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.

The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

Joining Yes was one of those stupid things that you do sometimes. It was one of the two or three times in my life that I've done something that I knew was wrong.

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.

Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful.

I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.

It's not that I dislike many people. It's just that I don't like many people.

I love a stupid joke, something that doesn't make any sense.

There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.

If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.

I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.

Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.

What the entertainment industry can do is tempt you into making stupid mistakes, but the only tool that they have to tempt you is money. So if youre okay saying no to money, then you can say no to a lot of things that you might be embarrassed of later.

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.

I think even the most beautiful person looks stupid on Skype.

Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?'

I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.

Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling.

People want a result. Immigrant voters aren't stupid, and they're going to know who's on their side.

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

For me, it works to my advantage when people think I'm stupid. If somebody who disdains you or wants to control you underestimates you, you can play their game right back.

I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations.

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

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.

People are mean and hateful, angry - haters everywhere, stupid blogs.

When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.

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