Quotes about stupidity

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“Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.”

“As he fell toward the highway, a horrible scenario flashed through his mind: his body smashing against an SUV's windshield, some annoyed commuter trying to push him off with the wipers. "Stupid 16-year-old kid falling from the sky! I'm late!”

“Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.”

“Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.”

“Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous".”

“It’s absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we’ve got rockets, we’ve got saran wrap – FIX IT!!!”

“Hey!" I screamed, waving the jacket, running to one side of the monster. "Hey, stupid! Ground beef!”

“Simon-"From now on I will only adress people by nodding at them." Clary-"That's stupid why would you do that?" Simon-"Because it says that 'I am a badass, and I recognive that you too, are a badass”

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid”

“Fifty dorcas they’re setting up an ambush near my ship. (Nykyrian)
No bet. I know they are. They’re too stupid to not be obvious and predictable. Gah, I hate abiding by the law. Too bad you can’t slaughter them where they stand. (Syn)”

“When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.”

“I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.”

“Don't do anything stupid.”

“But what they called him isn’t fit for mixed company and doesn’t bear repeating. Stupid fuckheads. (Hauk)”

“Honestly, do these people have nothing better to do than engage in stupid mindless speculation about people they don't know?”

“How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?”

“You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.”

“A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.”

“When you're surrounded by stupidity, self-preservation isn't a sin.”

“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe.”

“Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.”

“Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance.”

“Don’t be stupid, Katra. Never speak in anger and never try to force your will onto someone else. You’ll never find peace in that. (Acheron)”

“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.”

“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”

“There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.”

“Another dream. Another long-distance call on my phantom party line. No wonder i had steadfastly refused to have dreams for most of my life. So stupid; such pointless, obvious symbols. Totally uncontrollable anxiety soup, hateful, blatant nonsense.”

“Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.”

“when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.”

“She's not stupid. She just never lets her mind out.”

“It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.”

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

“The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.”

“Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.”

“I’m blushing at my own stupid, nonsensical, meaningless thought process, which, by the way, nobody knows about except me.”

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

“People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.”

“I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.”

“I like 'em big. And stupid. Don't tell my husband.”

“sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy”

“When life gives you lemons… choke on them and die… you stupid lemon eater.”

“Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.”

“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.”

“All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.”

“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”

“Happy birthday. And next time? Eat the stupid cupcake.”

“I’m going. But before I do, let me congratulate all of you on your stupidity. (Fury)”

“The entire world of grown-ups is corrupt and stupid.”

“You want me to do what? What part of stupid crawled up your sphincter and died?” – Caleb”

“Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.”

“You simply cannot tell other people they are stupid, even if they really are stupid.”

“Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.”

“To the stupidity of men, " Dakota said, raising a glass. "And my brother, who is their king.”

“I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid.”

“I looked at Rachel. "You're not going to do anything stupid, are you? I mean…. you talked to Chiron, right?"
She managed a faint smile. "You're worried aboutdoing something stupid?”

“Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?”

“That's the most stupid expression in the world. 'I fell in love'—as if you had no choice. There's a moment, there's always a moment; I can do this, I can give in to this or I can resist it. I don't know when your moment was but I bet there was one.”

“This is the stupidest plan I have ever in my career participated in," Xenophon said.
"I love stupid plans," said Eugenides.”

“… the greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind.”

“people who say its a long story, mean it's a stupid short one that they are too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell”

“Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.”

“How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.”

“It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).”

“Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.”

“When people look you in the eye and call you stupid, dont look away, but tell them that half of the world is stupid and they are one of them because they are dening their own stupidity.”

“Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said, 'but sometimes there's a fine line between courage and stupidity.”

“what was fang going to do BLOG about max throwing herself into space so she wouldn't have to kiss him again? NO instead he smashed his fist against the cave wall then grimaced at the pain and stupidity seeing his bloodied knuckles”

“Like your zodiac sign? Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.
'No, stupid,' Leo said. I'm a Leo. You're a Percy.”

“For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.”

“Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.”

“You suck, surprising no one!!!! If bad was a boot, you'd fit it!!!! You're a stupid poo-poo head! I had sexual relations with your mother! Your mother was not that good in bed! You, sir, are a wretched soul! I am rubber, you are glue!”

“I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for stupid, for scared. S for silly. For shame.”

“Fine. Somebody else can arrange to get the stupid goat knocked up.”

“Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence.”

“The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.”

“I am so stupid, so easily fooled. It's really almost funny. If I could lift a finger I would gladly kill myself.”

“It's stupid what keeps people apart.”

“Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.”

“[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.”

“I may be fat and ugly, but I'm not stupid. If anyone had ever gotten past my looks, they might've noticed I have a brain.”

“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity”

“Your favorite volhv showed up half an hour ago, complaining about his lack of sleep and stupid gods. He says he brought his Batman belt.”

“Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.”

“If I gave my mother a knitted scarf she'd be worried I was wasting my time doing stupid stuff like knitting instead of school work. Presenting a homemade knitted object to my parents was actually like handing them a detailed backlog of my idleness.”

“Because she’s Acheron companion. (Astrid)
Ash has a companion? (Zarek)
(The demon snorted. She stood up and whispered loudly in Astrid’s ear.)
Dark-Hunters are cute, but very stupid. (Simi)”

“This stupid weapons-shopping idea. Last time I take dating advice from Jace.” “You let Jace plan our date?”

“It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that.

"And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.”

“it sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics…”

“Meddling, smug, stupid little…"
"She likes me! They always play hard to get when they like me!"
"No. You do not understand. I could not have done it because I can not read or write.”

“The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.”

“A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid.”

“There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.”

“When death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.'

Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry.

Yes.

I like that a lot.”

“The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.”

“A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.”

“What were good and evil, really, but stupid categories? Stupid categories
that restricted people and punished or rewarded them based on how they responded to their own natures, natures they really didn't have any way to control.”

“The will to be stupid is a very powerful force.”

“It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.”