„We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.“
— Marilyn Monroe American actress, model, and singer 1926 - 1962
Quotes about stupidity
A collection of quotes on the topic of stupidity.
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„Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.“
— Hedy Lamarr Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping 1914 - 2000
As quoted in The Stars (1962) by Richard Schickel
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„It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful“
— Anton LaVey Founder of the Church of Satan, author of the Satanic Bible 1930 - 1997
Context: It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful.
„I don't understand,
Why do I stress a man,
When there's so many bigger things at hand.
We could've never had it all,
We had to hit a wall,
So this is inevitable withdrawal.
Even if I stop wanting you
And perspective pushes through,
I'll be some next man's other woman soon.
I couldn't play myself again,
I should just be my own best friend,
Not fuck myself in the head with stupid men.“
— Amy Winehouse English singer and songwriter 1983 - 2011
Tears Dry On Their Own
„Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.“
— Robert A. Heinlein American science fiction author 1907 - 1988
„I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.“
— C.G. Jung Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology 1875 - 1961
„Question is, are you bozos smart enough to feel stupid?“
— Eminem American rapper and actor 1972
"Berzerk".
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„The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they're stupid.“
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963
„It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.“
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
„You got to set your mind right and the rest will come to you naturally. No restrictions, no hang-ups, no stupid rules, no formalities, no forbidden fruit — just everyone getting and giving as much as he and she can.“
— Ray Charles American musician 1930 - 2004
Context: Women anchor me. They're there when I need them. They're sensitive to me, and I'm sensitive to them. I'm not saying I've loved that many women. Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.
But sex is something else. I'm not sure that there can ever be too much sex. To me, it's another one of our daily requirements — like eating. If I go twenty-four hours without it, I get hungry. Sex needs to be open and fun, free and happy. It's whatever you make it, and I try my hardest to create situations where me and my woman can enjoy ourselves — all of ourselves — without our inhibitions getting in the way.
You got to set your mind right and the rest will come to you naturally. No restrictions, no hang-ups, no stupid rules, no formalities, no forbidden fruit — just everyone getting and giving as much as he and she can.
For the Love of Women, p. 239
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„Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.“
— Ludwig Wittgenstein Austrian-British philosopher 1889 - 1951
p. 39e
„PowerPoint makes us stupid.“
— James Mattis 26th and current United States Secretary of Defense; United States Marine Corps general 1950
Referring to the ubiquitous presentation software at a brief in North Carolina in April 2010, as quoted in We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html?src=me&ref=general (2010) by Elisabeth Bumiller, The New York Times
„Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.“
— Aristophanés Athenian playwright of Old Comedy -446 - -385 BC
Fictional attribution in the movie The Emperor's Club (2002), given by Kevin Kline (as William Hundert); no published occurrences of this statement prior to the movie have been located in any of the Aristophanes Plays or Fragments.