The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low. — Hunter S. Thompson
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. — Gustave Flaubert
The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance. — Carl Sagan
Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries. — Albert Einstein
The dumbest people I know are those who know it all. — Malcolm Forbes
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. — Albert Camus
Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst. — Thomas Mann
It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves. — Franz Kafka
Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not. — Frank Zappa
Stupidity is what we all have in common as human beings, but some people insist that improving it is their entitlement. — Pete Edochie
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people. — Seneca The Elder
In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated. — Gustave Le Bon
Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb — Will Rogers
The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people. — Stephen Hawking
Quotes are for dumb people who can't think of something intelligent to say on their own. — Bo Burnham
It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde. — Marilyn Monroe
I don't think there's anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers...I mean Chargers. — Bill Belichick
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. — Erica Jong
A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb. — Marilyn Monroe
Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again. — George W. Bush
You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. — Joe Biden
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. — Henry A. Kissinger
I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall. — Donald Trump
Dumbness Image Quotes
I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool. — Leon Spinks
Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be. — Goldie Hawn
The saddest thing for a girl to do is dumb herself down for a guy.
A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent. — Eugene Atget
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. — Dan Quayle
Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber. — Justin Bieber
Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinkng. They want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.
When you're rich, you don't write checks. Straight cash, homey. — Randy Moss
I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50 and it's 3% good and 97% stupid.
What Is Stupidity Quotes
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. — Voltaire
Is this chicken what I have or is this fish? I know it's tuna. But it says chicken. By the sea. — Jessica Simpson
Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure stupidity - or, rather, inattention, misinformation about fundamentals, and an exaggerated focus on currently circulating stories. — Robert J. Shiller
The novice-friendly software is more like a misbehaving dog: it shits on the floor, it destroys things, and stinks - the novice-friendly software embodies the opposite of what computer people have dreamed of for decades: artificial stupidity. It's more human. — Erik Naggum
Stupid presidents, smart presidents, white presidents, black presidents - doesn't work! What this country needs is a crazy Third World dictator. And Donald Trump has what it takes to be that. He's already got a plane with his name on it, solid gold buildings, a harem... — Lewis Black
A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is. — Abraham Maslow
It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is. — William J. Clinton
I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less. — Diane Cilento
It is hard to get mad at Donald Trump for saying stupid things, in the same way you don't get mad at a monkey when he throws poop at you at the zoo... What does get me angry is the ridiculous, disingenuous defending of the poop-throwing monkey. — Jon Stewart
Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature. — Samuel Johnson
Dumb Deep Quotes
I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness. — Alicia Silverstone
If people think I'm a dumb blonde, because of the way I look, then they're dumber than they think I am. If people think I'm not very deep because of my wigs and outfits, then they're not very deep. — Dolly Parton
I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness. — Alicia Silverstone
In the media's eyes Bannon made Trump. Trump is too dumb to have made himself. Trump is too rough around the edges. Trump is not a deep enough thinker, and he's not nearly a brilliant strategist. Trump couldn't have gotten himself elected. That's what they all think. Bannon did that. — Rush Limbaugh
PASSIONS are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields discourse, it seemsThe bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover That they are poor in that which makes a lover. — Sir Walter Raleigh
It's deep-rooted, the music of being young and dumb,
It's never muted, in fact, it's much louder where I'm from. — Kendrick Lamar
Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;
So, when affection yields discourse, it seems
The bottom is but shallow whence they come.
They that are rich in words, in words discover — Walter Raleigh
Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. — Walter Raleigh
Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings. — Kevin Spacey
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 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
Dying with a lot of money is a Dumb Thing! — MrBeast
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
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
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
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
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
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
Dumbing Down Quotes
The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization. — Fredric Jameson
There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive. — Danica McKellar
There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan. — Malcolm Turnbull
Snooki is a bestselling author? Huh? What? I don't know if I should dumb down my book, shoot myself or find a publisher who'll settle for a rough draft written on a Pop-Tart and a coconut lotion handie. — Geoffrey Hill
I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies. — Elmer Bernstein
The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them. — Stephen Sondheim
I'm just gonna do my own kinda swag of kinda dumbing something down and speaking some knowledge. — SonReal
True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down." — Isaac Asimov
People are always talking about the dumbing down of the country. — Woody Allen
The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return. How are parents who never received a decent education themselves to recognize that their children are not getting a decent education? — Thomas Sowell
Dumb Decisions Quotes
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
I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game. — Warren Buffett
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
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
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
Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders. — Erwin Rommel
Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings. They live in thickets and caves, and eat herbs and unprepared grain. They frequently eat each other. They cannot be considered human beings. — Ibn Khaldun
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
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde. — Dolly Parton
An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books. — Malcolm X
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? — Dorothy Parker
I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask! — Jessica Simpson
I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me. — Lisa Kudrow
Playing dumb is a valid negotiating technique. — Chris Voss
If you stay away from parties, you're called a snob. If you go, you're an exhibitionist. If you don't talk, you're dumb. If you do talk, you're quarrelsome. Pardon me while I change my nail polish. — Lana Turner
Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything. — Courtney Love
The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb. — Knute Rockne
First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. & And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl. — John M Barry
It's really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people. — Axl Rose
I have started smiling! I've mastered this smirk; it's a smile that isn't a smile. — Victoria Beckham
Some of my Vines, the young girls love them. But college students will watch them and be like, yo this is dumb. — Logan Paul
Good people help others with no concern for themselves. Smart people help others while also helping themselves. Evil people hurt others to help themselves. Dumb people hurt themselves and others. — Balaji Srinivasan
Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas. — Michele Bachmann
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