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Quotes About Stupid

you see, and the folly of sitting smug in judgment years after, stuffed with piety and ignorance and book-learned bias. Humanity is beastly and stupid, aye, and helpless, and there's an end to it.
~ George MacDonald Fraser
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
~ George Orwell
Whether the British ruling class are wicked or merely stupid is one of the most difficult questions of our time, and at certain moments a very important question.
~ George Orwell
All past oligarchies have fallen from power either because they ossified or because they grew soft. Either they became stupid and arrogant, failed to adjust themselves to changing circumstances, and were overthrown; or they became liberal and cowardly, made concessions when they should have used force, and once again were overthrown.
~ George Orwell
Estaban no cerne da situación máis vulgar, máis estúpida do mundo. Pero por máis que sabían que era vulgar e estúpida, así e todo estaban alí: a oposición entre o traballo e a liberdade, oíran dicir, xa ía boa que deixara de constituír un concepto rigoroso; e sen embargo era o que máis os condicionaba.
~ Georges Perec
Racism is ignorant. And it's stupid. And it's old. And it's played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? 'Let's all get along' - I'm so tired of that damn sentence, but it's true.
~ Queen Latifah
'Reno 911: Miami!' is a terrible, terrible title, and all the reviews - good and mostly bad - nobody pointed out how stupid a title that was. But you can hardly come up with a sentence that's more awkward.
~ Robert Ben Garant
If you can find it in you to love how stupid the entertainment industry is, you can have a great career.
~ Jon Cryer
No technique, no matter how good, can turn stupid coworkers into smart ones. And no method can magically make employees trust each other or their boss if they have good reason not to.
~ Scott Berkun
It's an old Camorri tradition for when a bunch of people are planning something stupid," said Locke. "Actually, we have a lot of traditions for that. You'll find out
~ Scott Lynch
I can be very loud, when I'm being stupid.
~ Scott Lynch
Singua solus." "What's that?" said Jenora. "It's an old Camorri tradition for when a bunch of people are planning something stupid," said Locke. "Actually, we have a lot of traditions for that. You'll find out.
~ Scott Lynch
What a stupid, reckless, idiotic, ridiculous damn thing to do! I haven't the words to express my admiration.
~ Scott Lynch
We cannot solve the problems of America if every time somebody somewhere says something stupid, that everybody gets up in arms and we forget about the war in Iraq or we forget about the economy.
~ Barack Obama
Why will people be so stupid as to suppose themselves the only foreigners among a crowd of ten thousand persons?
~ Mark Twain
I am stupid Hans Hubermann told his foster daughter And kind, which makes me the biggest idiot in the world.
~ Markus Zusak
People stupid. The dream didn't leave, people just don't know a nightmare when they right in the middle of one.
~ Marlon James
Like everybody else, Guy had little appetite for the big bad news. Like everybody else, he had supped full of horrors, over breakfast, day after day, until he was numb with it, stupid with it, and his daily paper went unread.
~ Martin Amis
loggerhead. 1. Latin: Caretta caretta. A tropical sea turtle with a hard shell and a large head. 2. a stupid fellow; blockhead. 3. at loggerheads; in disagreement; in a quarrel.
~ Mary Alice Monroe
Men! It's not that they're brutish, boorish, shallow, and insensitive—though I dare say many are. It's just that they're so damned blind. So incredibly stupid. Men in myth and fiction at least. In real life we are keen, clever, and entirely without fault, of course.
~ Stephen Fry
I would like to speculate a little on the development of life in the universe, and in particular on the development of intelligent life. I shall take this to include the human race, even though much of its behaviour throughout history has been pretty stupid and not calculated to aid the survival of the species.
~ Stephen Hawking
I would like to speculate a little on the development of life in the universe, and in particular on the development of intelligent life. I shall take this to include the human race, even though much of its behaviour throughout history has been pretty stupid and not calculated to aid the survival of the species. Two questions I shall discuss are "What is the probability of life existing elsewhere in the universe?" and "How may life develop in the future?
~ Stephen Hawking
A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.
~ Stephen King
Magic would not work on Henry. He was too stupid.
~ Stephen King