“Stupid is as stupid looks.”

“Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.”

Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director

“There are dignified stupidities, and there are heroic stupidities, and there is such a thing as stupid stupidities, and that would be a stupid stupidity not to have a camera on board.”

Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director

“Stupid, stupid, stupid!”

Pierre Boulez (1925–2016) French composer, conductor, writer, and pianist

“And you stupid, stupid woman, stupid for caring, stupid for thinking that he cared.”

David Nicholls book One Day

“If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

“There is nothing in Lacan which is not stupid, no exceptions to stupidity, so that what makes him not totally stupid is only the very inconsistency of his stupidity.”

Slavoj Žižek (1949) Slovene philosopher

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

“I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!”

Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun

“I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal.”

Nélson Rodrigues (1912–1980) Brazilian writer and playwright