130 Dumb Things Quotes

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Famous Dumb Things Quotes

Some idiotic things are well worth doing. — Richard Ford

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all. — Malcolm Forbes

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people. — Seneca The Elder

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. — Albert Camus

Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb — Will Rogers

Quotes are for dumb people who can't think of something intelligent to say on their own. — Bo Burnham

I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes? — Mika

There are no dumb questions?only dumb answers. — Marshall Loeb

And hey, it's okay to laugh at yourself sometimes, I do dumb things all the time (haha). But when it get's too personal, get your tough skin on and stand firm. — Christina Grimmie

I'm dumbfounded by me all the time. Wow! What a.... thrill.....and a joy - Layne Staley

I'm dumbfounded by me all the time. Wow! What a.... thrill.....and a joy — Layne Staley

I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb. — Keanu Reeves

I was a dummy in school. - Alan Ladd

I was a dummy in school. — Alan Ladd

Every once in a while, the market does something so stupid it takes your breath away — Jim Cramer

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man. — Nikolai Gogol

I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions. — Orrin Hatch

Short Dumb Things Quotes

  • I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me. — Lisa Kudrow
  • Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries. — Albert Einstein
  • Stupidity is a talent for misconception. — Edgar Allan Poe
  • Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst. — Thomas Mann
  • You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things. — Nevil Shute
  • A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb. — Marilyn Monroe
  • Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think? — L. Frank Baum
  • There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them. — Gene Simmons
  • More idiots should just shut their mouths. — Chris Martin
  • Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human. — Kurt Cobain

Dumb Things Image Quotes

Dumb things quote Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.

Doing Dumb Things Quotes

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life. — Jaggi Vasudev

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation. — Jocko Willink

To ignore death and to be afraid of it is dumb because everyone is going to face it at some point. If you look at death and the reality of it, you realise that we're all going to die, so let's use this time on Earth to be positive and do good things. — Ray Toro

Dumb things quote Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick.
Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick.

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things? — Philip Zimbardo

So guys who are otherwise sensitive and thoughtful say and do ridiculously dumb things to impress other guys. It's an enormous performance, but guys know that if they fail, they'll be ridiculed as sissies mercilessly. — Michael Kimmel

I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it. — Bob Gill

It's in the nature of stock markets to go way down from time to time. There's no system to avoid bad markets. You can't do it unless you try to time the market, which is a seriously dumb thing to do. Conservative investing with steady savings without expecting miracles is the way to go. — Charlie Munger

I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing. — Katherine Moennig

The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy. — Emma Watson

The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. — Michael Jackson

Dumb But Smart Quotes

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. — Erica Jong

My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally. — John Dominic Crossan

However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once. — Bruce McCulloch

There were three kinds of evangelical leaders: The dumb or idealistic ones who really believed. The out-and-out charlatans. And the smart ones who still believed – sort of – but knew that the evangelical world was sh*t, but who couldn't figure out any way to earn as good a living anywhere else. — Frank Schaeffer

I may not be smart enough to do everything, but I am dumb enough to try anything. — Geoff Johns

We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers. — Ann Romney

They don't understand that I'm just choosing to be dumb. I'm not dumb. I'm just choosing not to be smart at the moment, but if I put in effort, then I could be really smart, but I choose not to. — Jonah

Sometimes along the way in my life I don't want a smart woman right now, I want a dumb woman. But then you think, that doesn't work, now I want a smart woman. Then you get a smart woman and you go no, that doesn't work so it's just killing me right now. — Gerard Butler

I hate to say this, but at the time, (late 70's) it was like the smart people liked punk and the dumb people liked Journey. — Howie Klein

Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot of toys. Hundreds of things. But computers are toys, and men like to mess around with smart dumb things. They feel creative. — Ray Bradbury

Dumbness Quotes

Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal will be about socializing...uh, um...Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies. — Maxine Waters

People say, 'The government couldn't carry out the September 11th attack, it's too big, they'd get caught!' They DID get caught! They're just counting on you to be dumb and to go along with it. — Alex Jones

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people. — Stephen Hawking

You know, it really doesn`t matter what the media write as long as you`ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass. — Donald Trump

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low. — Hunter S. Thompson

It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde. - Marilyn Monroe

It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde. — Marilyn Monroe

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged. — Antonin Scalia

Inherited hatred (i.e. hatred your parents schooled you in) is not only stupid, it is destructive - why make your only driving force hate? Seems really f***ing dumb to me. — Lemmy Kilmister

Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated. — Ibn Khaldun

I don't think there's anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers...I mean Chargers. — Bill Belichick

Silly Things Quotes

I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved. — Shana Abe

The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true. — Valentino Rossi

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life. — Anton Chekhov

Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled. — Red Skelton

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. — Pam Brown

Don't let the silly little dramas of each day get you down. For you are here to do great things. — Ralph Marston

I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though. — Norah Jones

When you speak up about any sense of unfairness or injustice, you're told that you're overreacting, you're too angry, too silly-shut up already. It takes a tremendous amount of fortitude to be able to live in this world as a woman, let alone a woman who wants things to change. — Kathleen Hanna

Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars. — James M. Barrie

Dumb Decisions Quotes

Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man - he made a good decision. — Donald Trump

Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones. — Warren Buffett

Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it. — Cormac McCarthy

Strategic plans cause more dumb decisions than anything else in America. — Charlie Munger

I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes. — Richard M. Nixon

The way that we make dumb decisions and discriminatory decisions is by employing stereotypes about groups of people. We don't see people as fully human when other people speak for them. — Rachel Maddow

How I wish we could all see the cost of our choices as clearly as a price tag on items in a store. If I know how much something is going to cost me, I make much wiser choices. But we have an enemy who schemes against us to keep the cost of dumb decisions concealed until it's too late. — Lysa TerKeurst

What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong. — Michael Lewis

When you get a lot of money thrown at you, you can make some dumb decisions without the right advice. — Peyton Manning

We made this really dumb decision to put on the cover nothing from South Park but just a real life photo of a piece of pooh dressed up like Mr. Hankey, and a lot of people didn't, they didn't even know what it was. — Trey Parker

Crazy Things Quotes

If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion. — Maxine Waters

had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young. — Kenny Chesney

The thing about crazy people; they don't know they are crazy, that's what make them crazy. — Jim Jefferies

I have just accepted certain things and it makes it easier. I accept I will get injured. I accept I cannot win every race. I work hard to decrease the chances of those things happening but I accept they will happen. A lot of people don't accept it. They get injured, they go crazy. — Usain Bolt

You can't please everybody. You['d] be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself. — Nas

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown. — Robert Bly

The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet if they had not had these crazy ideas the world would have been more stupid. — Arsene Wenger

I was the Pink Pansy or whatever, wearing this crazy thing. - Kel Mitchell

I was the Pink Pansy or whatever, wearing this crazy thing. — Kel Mitchell

I like when things are crazy. Something good comes out of exhaustion. - John Mulaney

I like when things are crazy. Something good comes out of exhaustion. — John Mulaney

I know how to sell a brand and create excitement around something, and so when you combine those two together - entertaining and marketing - it's like things start to go crazy. — Jake Paul

People Writing About Dumb Things

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Read quotes by Richard Ford

Richard Ford
quotes on leadership, education and teamwork

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Read quotes by Malcolm Forbes

Malcolm Forbes
quotes on education

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Read quotes by Seneca The Elder

Seneca The Elder
quotes on death, education and leadership

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Read quotes by Albert Camus

Albert Camus
quotes on love, life and absurdity

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Read quotes by Will Rogers

Will Rogers
quotes on politics, death and aging

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Read quotes by Bo Burnham

Bo Burnham

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More Dumb Things Quotes

I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall. — Donald Trump

Dying with a lot of money is a Dumb Thing! — MrBeast

Courage is a hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or mistake but you’re not supposed to question adults or your coach or your teacher because they make the rules. Maybe they know best but maybe they don’t. It all depends on who you are, where you come from. — Michael Oher

It's a humbling thing being humble. — Maurice Clarett

And every stone and every star a tongue, And every gale of wind a curious song. The Heavens were an oracle, and spoke Divinity: the Earth did undertake The office of a priest; and I being dumb (Nothing besides was dumb) all things did come With voices and instructions. — Thomas Traherne

There's things people say in the barbershop they won't even say in their own living room, because it's just one of those zones where nobody's going to judge you too much about your dumb opinion. — Ice Cube

Let's not let a few dumb things Mitt Romney said in private overshadow the many idiotic things he's said in public. — Andy Borowitz

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. — George W. Bush

How wide are the horizons of the spinning earth! The moonlight leads the tides and the sun's light will not be confined within the net of heaven. But in the end all things return to the One. The deaf and the dumb, the crippled and deformed are all restored to One's perfection. — Hsu Yun

I don't have many superstitions, just dumb things I don't talk about. I will not sign an autograph with a green pen. — Mario Andretti

Metal musicians say dumb things sometimes. — Rob Halford

Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery. — Benjamin Carson

The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliché villains with a Russian accent and big muscles and a mean face, I don’t know. My Russian accent isn’t that great, and the muscles aren’t that big and the mean face is not enough. You know what I mean? It gets very boring. Tedious stuff. — Sayings

Our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes - and I see many of them in the audience here today. — Barack Obama

The only thing you find in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans. — Anton Newcombe

That's why I got a new dumb thing moving through the streets Got a new condo moving to the beach Heard Nicki just bought a brand new crib Got damn man she's beauty and the beast — Drake

So many of us have our asses watching stupid reality shows, desensitizing our brains. Like, "Wow, isn't that dumb, but I'm so entertained right now! That's the stupidest thing I've seen in my life - give me more of it!" You know what I'm talking about. I turn on the television and I'm like, "This is so bad, but I cannot get my fucking eyes off of it." It's not good. — Michael Pitt

All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done. — Thomas Sowell

Recorded music is basically free now. I used to tour to promote a CD, but now I make a CD to promote a tour. I've moved on and live with the new reality, but I do get frustrated when people do dumb things. — Peter Frampton

[Footnote:] To give the Beaver his due, he does things because he has to do them, not because he believes that hard work per se will somehow make him a better Beaver -- the Beaver may be dumb, but he is not that dumb! The Beaver was made to gnaw, and gnaw he does. There you have him in a nutshell. — Will Cuppy

My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things. — Kurt Vonnegut

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind. — Robert Anton Wilson

There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons. — Hunter S. Thompson

Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man. — Immanuel Kant

He [Tinky Winky] is purple - the gay-pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle - the gay pride symbol. — Jerry Falwell

Donald Trump says five things: everyone's dumb, he's going to make America great again, we're going to win, win, win. He's winning in the polls. — Marco Rubio

We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb. — Marilyn Manson

It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later. — Antoine Fuqua

Some critics will say Coca-Cola made a marketing mistake. Some cynics will say that we planned the whole thing. The truth is we are not that dumb, and we are not that smart. — Donald Keough

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