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Quotes About Stupid

Of all the basic human values, surely freedom is the most basic and most important? Who could conceive of anything as stupid as giving away this priceless gift in order to be enslaved to a drug that doesn't even get you high?
~ Allen Carr
I won't. But … pamphlets?' 'Absolutely.' 'Etchings?' 'The language of the heart.' 'Do you really think people are that stupid?' 'Darling.' She leaned closer, and kissed him gently, and touched him lightly on the tip of his nose with her fingertip. 'People are far more stupid than that.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Miriam sang, "Gail, Gail, she bosses everyone around. Gail, Gail, she is really stupid." The melody was just as good as the lyrics.
~ Joe Hill
Leonard, you're my hero. When I grow up I want to be just like you. Can I, huh, can I?" "Need some black paint first, but that isn't gonna make you as pretty. And it would be nice if you were a lot less stupid.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
~ E. M. Forster
They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.
~ E. Lockhart
Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.
~ E. Lockhart
tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.
~ E. Lockhart
Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
~ Anonymous
The people in the grandstand just want to see good driving, good overtaking. But inside the sport everything is about money and politics. It's stupid. And I'm not just talking about Formula One. It's every sport.
~ Felipe Massa
Redd's face contorted with a sudden realization. How could I have been so stupid? The Cat was trying to decide if this was a rhetorical question when she roared, It's a construct! With a dismiissive swing of Redd's arm, Alyss and her army began to shimmer, the billon points of engery that formed them monentarily visible before exploding apart into nothing. Redd scoped the queendom with her imagination's eye. Where are you, Alyss? Where is my dear little niece?
~ Frank Beddor
Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam.
~ Frank Herbert
I think if you're an actor you kind of have to be willing to look stupid.
~ Heather Graham
man is the only animal that is clever enough to build the empire state building and stupid enough to jump off.
~ Rock Hudson
I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.
~ Roland Joffe
America had once ruled the earth, he said. But it had never bothered to educate its people. So now it was a country of ignorant peasants, a noisy and stupid rabble.
~ Lydia Millet
There is even a rather delightful publication for children called The Punctuation Repair Kit, which takes the line Hey! It's uncool to be stupid! - which is a lie, of course, but you have to admire them for trying.
~ Lynne Truss
And here indeed it was again, the temptation, the cowardly, the future-corruptive serpent: trample on it stupid fool. Be Mexico.
~ Malcolm Lowry
In markets, stupid action does not have equal but severe opposite reaction.
~ Vijay Kedia
The most intelligent members of the animal kingdom are human beings
~ so are the most stupid
At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.
~ Dave Grohl
Closing your eyes to the cruelty of life is, in my opinion, both stupid and sinful. There's very little we can do about it. So we have to at least acknowledge it.
~ Amos Oz
Those who don't heed the warnings don't live to admit they were stupid not to do so.
~ Amy Tan
Feminists have good reasons for feeling tired. The backlash against feminism has been deeply stupid.
~ Andrea Dworkin