Quotes about stupidity

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“Damn, I miss the internet. You could always find people doing stupid stuff on the internet.”

“You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a "graphic novel," but comic books are still incredibly stupid.”

“The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you.”

“You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.”

“I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning.”

“It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.”

“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?”

“I’m not stupid, nor a liar,” I said, “and if I can’t do any good, I can at least do something”

“Why do you have to be the same as the others?… Most of them are stupid.”

“Fear is stupid, so are regrets.”

“Tell me he’s not talking to Brandon,” Claire said.
“Um… Ok. He’s not talking to Brandon.”
“You’re lying.”
“Yeah. He’s talking to Brandon. Look, let Shane do his thing, okay? He’s not as stupid as he looks, mostly.”

“Listen to me, goblin. You're stupid, let's accept that and move on.”

“And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.”

“Stupid is not illegal.”

“The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can't you see? I do not.”

“Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.”

“A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader.”

“Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!”

“Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.”

“I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, "WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME HOME FOR? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SNOGGING, YOU STUPID HERBIVORES???”

“I can’t believe I was ever stupid enough to trust Noir. Come to the dark side. We have cookies. (Zeth)”

“For a genius thief you really are a stupid girl aren't you?”

“Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.”

“In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.”

“I know
it’s stupid to not own a gun yet have

so many triggers, but in some other world
gigantic seashells hold humans

to their ears and listen to the echo
of machines.”

“Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.”

“Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.”

“The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people.”

“I ain't grouchy,” Teft snapped. “I just have a low threshold for stupidity.”

“Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.”

“Underground. Which I hate. Like mines and tunnels and 13. Underground, where I dread dying, which is stupid because even if I die aboveground, the next thing they'll do is bury me underground anyway.”

“And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?”

“And now I wish I hadn’t been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!”
“No, no!” said Alverstoke soothingly. “Nobody could be as stupid as Endymion!”

“She wondered if it was her stupid mother, the goddess of love, messing with her thoughts. If Piper started getting urges to read fashion magazines, she was going to have to find Aphrodite and smack her.”

“Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.”

“Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.”

“I thought you were dead.
Stupid. As if I'd die without taking you with me.”

“People--stupid when they lived; potentially stupid when they died.”

“Thank you for nothing, you stupid reptile.”

“It's simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.”

“I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.”

“She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.”

“The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.”

“This won't stop her from getting elected," Shane said. "Stupider people get elected all the time. It's America. We love the sleazy. And the crazy." "I would like to think better of us," Claire said, "but yeah. You're right.”

“Don't cater to stupidity.”

“Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.”

“The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.”

“Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he's telling me I don't have to let him make me feel stupid.”

“Ordinarily he is insane, but he has lucid moments when he is only stupid.”

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

“I tried to tell you. You said you didn't care, remember?"
A muscle ticked below his eye. "You should have told me anyway."
"While you had barbells within your reach? Please. I'm Disease, not Stupid.”

“Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.”

“You don't have to do this."
"I think I do," Julian said. "I remember making a vow to that affect."
"Whither thou goest, i will go, whatever stupid thing you do, i shall do also'." Emma said. "Was that the vow?”

“It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer.”

“With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty”

“It’s fairly standard. Also, I’m fourteen. Also, your
beard’s stupid.”
“Isn’t this fun?” Skulduggery said brightly. “The three of us
getting along so well.”

“I was thinking that if what distinguishes us as humans is our stupidity, what may redeem us is our grace.”

“I love stupid plans.”

“Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.”

“Stupid is as stupid looks.”

“This is just my way of pointing out that we people who leap without looking are not stupid. We know damn well we might be headed for a fall. But we also know that, sometimes, it's the only way out.”

“We're the same! Even Sonya says we are.
We've always been the same, and we're
both acting the same stupid way now! We
hold ourselves to higher standards than
everyone else.”

“I am no longer afraid of getting old. Indeed I can't believe I ever said anything so stupid. So childish. So offensive and.
But mainly, so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old.”

“Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.”

“Now we're in that sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated. But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.”

“I have found a way to beat myself
I win by losing, something like that
I'm told that I'm stupid
So ok, I'll be stupid
If I can't register the pain
Then it's not there
I'm not so stupid after all
I'll show them”

“You did what you did out of love. I can't be mad at you over that. It was stupid, but that's how love is. Do you have any idea what I'd do for you? To keep you safe?”

“Fang! Come Back!" I started pulling his hair. Shaking his head and shoulders. Hard. "Wake up! Snap out of it! You stupid jerk! I am going to kill you if you die on me!”

“The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.”

“Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.”

“All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.”

“I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.”

“But I don't feel sad about it. Because Mother is dead. And because Mr. Shears isn't around anymore. So I would be feeling sad about something that isn't real and doesn't exist. And that would be stupid.”

“‎All my stupid little thoughts beget stupid little thoughts, rampantly speculating every possible outcome of every possible situation until they're all done to death and none of them could ever be true.”

“Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.”

“Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.”

“Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence”

“You can’t help being young, but it’s past time that you stopped being stupid.”

“Stupid people always ignored good advice”

“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”

“I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.”

“He was dressed just like on TV, with lots of silver chains and bracelets, ripped jeans, and a black muscle shirt (Which was kind of stupid, since he didn't have any muscles).”

“What did that stupid deserting crap-bag ex-boyfriend, ex-best friend with the most perfect stupid hair do? He DIDN'T delete his crap off the desktop before he fled my life and left me all alone. That's what he did.”

“And if we know how to light a fire, why do we carry tinder around with us?"

Because you're humans," the little one explained serenly. "You're stupid.”

“It is stupid to hope, but sometimes hope is all you have.”

“Oh, don’t worry. If you didn’t say some stupid things every once in a while, you certainly wouldn’t fit in with this group.”

“The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.”

“We're all entitled to a little stupidity now and then.
--Beldin”

“But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.”

“Human beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.”

“Stupid people go to college but"smart people own them"….”

“It gets so tiring, this strong-picking-on-the-weak stuff. It was the story of my life -literally- and it seemed to be a big part of the outside world too. I was sick of it, sick of guys like these, stupid and bullying.”

“At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice, and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.”

“In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy… anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.”

“The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.”

“They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and of the heartbroken desire to see a place made whole again.”

“I forgave you because I love you and I hate being without you. I hate it, my cat hates it. And because Catarina convinced me I was being stupid.”

“Barrons’ lips twitched. I’d almost made him smile. Barrons smiles about as often as the sun comes out in Dublin, and it has the same effect on me; makes me feel warm and stupid.”

“-"He loved her… It was noble of him. It was beautiful."

-"It was stupid.”