Quotes about stupidity page 7
“God, if you ever loved me, open my eyes for me when I'm being this stupid! (Ron)”
Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym
Source: Once Dead, Twice Shy
“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”
"The Early Essays".
Source: Without Feathers (1975)
“If what you've done is stupid, but it works.. then it really isn't all that stupid.”
David Letterman (1947) American comedian and actor
“There we go again, old men and their stupid arguments. What a pain.
~Toshiro Hitsugaya”
Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist
Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer
Source: Legacy of Lies & Don't Tell
Dallas Willard (1935–2013) American philosopher
Source: The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
Dallas Willard (1935–2013) American philosopher
Source: Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
Ron White (1956) American comedian
Source: I Had the Right to Remain Silent...But I Didn't Have the Ability
Dossie Easton (1944) American author and family therapist
Source: The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Source: Ninety-Three
“His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“Summer-induced stupidity.
That was the diagnosis…”
Aimee Friedman (1979) American writer
Source: Sea Change
Jeanne Birdsall (1951) American children's writer
Source: The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
“Do stupid stuff and even stupider suff will happen to you.”
Dan Gutman (1954) American children's writer
Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Source: El curioso incidente del perro a medianoche
“You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.
- Breeze”
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Source: The Final Empire
“It's so, so stupid what we do to ourselves because we're afraid. It's so stupid.”
Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon
Source: Keeping the Moon
“you must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.”
Clive Barker Days of Magic, Nights of War
Source: Days of Magic, Nights of War
“At least when you're young you're also stupid.”
Douglas Coupland Hey Nostradamus!
Source: Hey Nostradamus!
“The stupid things you say in the rain, that can't ever be washed away.”
Janet Fitch (1955) American writer
Source: Paint it Black
Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay
Variant: But more words tumble out. 'You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.'
Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.
Source: Mockingjay
R. Scott Bakker book The Judging Eye
TRIAMIS I, JOURNALS AND DIALOGUES
Source: The Judging Eye (2009)
“Never let fear and stupid pride make you lose someone who's precious to you.”
Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.”
Laurell K. Hamilton book The Laughing Corpse
Source: The Laughing Corpse
Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
“An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.”
Markus Zusak book The Book Thief
Source: The Book Thief
“… elegance loses its power in the presence of the properly stupid…”
Zoë Heller (1965) British writer
Alfred Bester book The Stars My Destination
“My pleasure, sir.”
Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (p. 251).
L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter
"The Wond'rous Wise Man", in Mother Goose in Prose (1897)
Short stories
Robert W. Service Ballads of a Bohemian
. . .
Then, then we'll end that stupid crime, that devil's madness -- War."
Ballads of a Bohemian (1921), Michael
Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) American birth control activist, educator and nurse
"Morality and Birth Control", February-March, 1918, pp. 11,14.
Birth Control Review, 1918-32
““You can hardly blame them.”
“Assuming stupidity is an inherited trait, then no, I can’t.””
Alastair Reynolds book Revelation Space
Source: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 3 (p. 67).
Geert Wilders (1963) Dutch politician
Speech http://www.pvv.nl/index.php/36-fj-related/geert-wilders/7981-geert-wilders-speech-danish-free-press-society-copenhagen-2-11-2014.html at the 10 years memorial conference for Theo Van Gogh arranged by the Danish Free Press Society (Copenhagen, 2 November 2014). <br class="br">2010s
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856–1915) American mechanical engineer and tennis player
Source: Principles of Scientific Management, 1911, p. 59.
John Brunner book The Sheep Look Up
December “A ROOST FOR CHICKENS”
The Sheep Look Up (1972)
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
"From the Desk of Donald Trump: South Korea" https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=agk9ZCrYol4 YouTube (10 April 2013) <br class="br">2010s, 2013
Alfred Binet (1857–1911) French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test
Alfred Binet (1909/1975, 105), as cited in: B.R. Hergenhahn. An Introduction to the History of Psychology 2009. p. 312-3
Modern ideas about children, 1909/1975
Arthur Schopenhauer book Parerga and Paralipomena
“Similes, Parables and Fables” Parerga and Paralipomena
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
Adam Roberts book Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer
Part 2, Chapter 4, “The Mystery of the Champagne Supernovae” (p. 128).
Jack Glass (2012)
Richard K. Morgan (1965) British writer
Richard Morgan (2002) in: "Never Mind the Cyberpunks: An Interview with Richard Morgan" at SaxonBullock.com, published by SlateMagazine.co.uk, 2002
Morgan discussing his "take away" of his novel Altered Carbon
Maddox (1978) American internet writer
Hollywood: still out of ideas? How about another black-guy-meets-white-guy comedy http://maddox.xmission.com/cop_movie.html <br class="br">The Best Page in the Universe
Karel Appel (1921–2006) Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet
Quoted in: 'Karel Appel, Dutch Expressionist Painter, Dies at 85', by Margalit Fox, in 'Art & Design', New York Times May 9, 2006
Quote of an oral history in 'Contemporary Artists' - Karel Appel describes the wild artistic urgency that gave rise to the Cobra artist-group
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VI : In the Depths of the Abyss
Thomas Carlyle book On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
Thomas Carlyle, "On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History" (1841), pg. 64-67
1840s
Derrick Jensen (1960) American environmentalist
Interview with The A Word Magazine, March/April 2005.
George William Foote (1850–1915) British secularist and journal editor
"The Gospel of Freethought" http://www.ftarchives.net/foote/flowers/101gospel.htm, p. 104 <br class="br">Flowers of Freethought (1893)
Johannes Grenzfurthner (1975) Austrian artist, writer, curator, and theatre and film director
Interview on Furtherfield http://www.furtherfield.org/interviews/interview-johannes-grenzfurthner-monochrom-part-1
“Stormtrooper Mel : Don't be stupid, be a smarty
Come and join the Nazi Party!”
Mel Brooks (1926) American director, writer, actor, and producer
The Producers
Iain Banks (1954–2013) Scottish writer
“Descendant” (p. 40)
Short fiction, The State of the Art (1991)
Dennis Miller (1953) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actor
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (3 April 2003)