„It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.“
— Solomon king of Israel and the son of David -1011 - -931 BC
Proverbs 19:1 http://www.jw.org/en/publications/bible/nwt/books/proverbs/19/
Quotes about stupidity
A collection of quotes on the topic of stupidity.
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„Maybe if I act like that, that guy will call me back.
What a Paparazzi girl, I don't wanna be a stupid girl.
Baby if I act like that, flipping my blond hair back,
Push up my bra like that. I don't wanna be a stupid girl.“
— Pink (singer) American singer-songwriter 1979
Stupid Girls, written by Pink, Billy Mann and Nikey Olovson & Robin Lynch
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„The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they're stupid.“
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963
„Translated: Human stupidity is international.“
— Kurt Tucholský German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer 1890 - 1935
"Hégésippe Simon" http://www.zeno.org/Literatur/M/Tucholsky,+Kurt/Werke/1931/H%C3%A9g%C3%A9sippe+Simon (1931); also in Schnipsel, published 1973, p. 102.
„But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.“
— Erwin Rommel German field marshal of World War II 1891 - 1944
Ch XVI : The Great Retreat, p. 347.
„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.
„Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.“
— Desmond Tutu South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner 1931
„Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life.
We're quits: stupid to draw up a list
of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains.“
— Vladimir Mayakovsky Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, artist and stage and film actor 1893 - 1930
Untitled last poem found after his death; translation from Martin Seymour-Smith Guide to Modern World Literature (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975) vol. 4, p. 235
„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
„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
„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".
„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
