The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. — Neal Stephenson
I do like to believe there is no stupid and or funny question because in fact if we don't ask than we don't learn. — Kai Greene
The idiot was not a lot of thinking, which is an important move on. Smart people mostly think, consequently never stepped — Bob Sadino
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation. — Bertrand Russell
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. — Bertrand Russell
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
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative. — John Stuart Mill
You can't fix stupid. There's not a pill you can take, or a class you can go to. — Ron White
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
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. — Thomas Szasz
In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated. — Gustave Le Bon
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
I'm Not Stupid Quotes
Yeah, well, I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid, hopefully. And I think we're all a bit crazy if we do anything that's deviant. I've studied a great deal on deviance and aberrant behavior. Most of the interesting people I've ever met have been deviant in one form or another. — Anton Szandor LaVey
I really can't deny it, I am who I am. I'm pretty normal. I'm not that smooth type of girl. I run into things, I trip, I spill food. I say stupid things... I really don't have it all together. — Katie Holmes
Maybe I'm stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I'm not telling anybody. — Ricky Williams
Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible. — Laura Schlessinger
I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes? — Mika
I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side. — Maya Angelou
When you are dead, you don't even know that you are dead. It's only pain for others. Same thing when you are stupid.
I'm not stupid. I can tell what's what. — Nick Diaz
I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat. — Ron Atkinson
If I wanted you to get a job, I would ask you to get a job. I'm also not stupid. I'm not going to overwork myself. If I have to chase the money, then I can't do this no more. That's not what I signed up for. I didn't sign up to tire myself out. — Fetty Wap
I'm not anti-anything. I'm not anti-Jew or Gentile, I'm not anti-white, but I am pro-black. I am pro my people. And I love us so much that it gets on my nerves when we do stupid things. — Stephen A. Smith
You Are Not Stupid Quotes
God’s anointing is not based on your performance, but if you don’t open the Word, you’re stupid, because that’s where the words of life are. — Andrew Wommack
It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid. — Susan Hampshire
It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad. It's an intimate mixture of rubbish and good ideas, and it's very hard to disentangle the two, because these are smart people; they're not stupid. — Douglas Hofstadter
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
In the birthing process, you come out just realizing how stupid and weak men are! I mean, I might as well not have been in there, we're useless! — Heath Ledger
Not to sound rude, but [acting] is stupid. Everybody's like "How can you remain with a level head?". And I'm like "Why would I ever get cocky? I'm not saving anybody's life. There are doctors who save lives and firemen who run into burning buildings. I'm making movies. It's stupid." — Jennifer Lawrence
The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn’t say much is that the teachers at school, especially those who don’t know you very well, are likely to think you’re rather stupid. Or, if not stupid, then dull. No one can see the amazing things that are going on in your head. — Ian McEwan
Worrying is stupid. It is like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them. — Anna Quindlen
I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher. — Stephen Malkmus
Ripred sighed. 'I suppose so. You and I seem to end up doing everything. Shall we say four members for each delegation?' 'Why not?' Luxa said. 'Four can be as stupid as ten. No need to crowd the room.' Ripred laughed. 'You know, I think you an I are going to get on famously. — Suzanne Collins
If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
You're Not Stupid Quotes
If you’ve never been lazy and done things the easy way, you’re probably not that smart. — Ryan Higa
You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge. — J. K. Rowling
That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you're not immortal and you've got to take care of yourself. And then laugh it off and fly away. — Marc Maron
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
I feel like I'm the best, but you're not going to get me to say that. — Jerry Rice
I drop styles on ears...the public bite 'em.
Not many went to school, so the dummies wouldn't write 'em.
They say, "Yo Keith! You're Kool, you usin' big words!"
I went to college, I'm even more stupid, herb. — Kool Keith
Those flowers were picked by illegal immigrants. And they're not voting for you, b*tch. — Joy Behar
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has it limits.
People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid. — Craig Ferguson
If you're not reading - with your heart as well as your brain - you will be one stupid grown up. Even worst, you'll be missing out on one of the best experiences you can possibly have. Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books. — James Patterson
On a day when you're not feeling so good, you put on a happy face, it's infectious - these things sound kind of corny and stupid, but this is our life. — Tom Selleck
Most of the real bad guys in the world are people like you and me; they're not stupid, and you can't smell their horns. — Rutger Hauer
We Are Not Stupid Quotes
Don't condemn the gangbangers, they've got guns that are trafficked, that are not enforced, that are straw purchased and they come into places even that have strong gun laws. Why? Because we don't have sensible gun legislation. — Sheila Jackson Lee
Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land. — Sebastiao Salgado
Don’t do something permanently stupid just because you are temporarily upset
We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them. — Kenneth Branagh
We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away. — Kevin Costner
Nature is objective, and nature is knowable, but we can only view her through a glass darkly and many clouds upon our vision are of our own making: social and cultural biases, psychological preferences, and mental limitations (in universal modes of thought, not just individualized stupidity). — Stephen Jay Gould
Don't let little stupid things break your happiness
Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species. — Robert B. Leighton
If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled? — Epictetus
Practice to look stupid, practice to look like you are not good enough or smart enough where you couldn't do things right and get over it anyway. The truth of the matter is we are all going to feel that way. — John Assaraf
We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks. — J. K. Rowling
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
The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and “Thou shalt not lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment. — George Carlin
God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools...and He has not been disappointed....If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world. — Antonin Scalia
No one is born with hate in their heart. Hate is something that has been taught. It is not an innate survival skill that we need; It is a form of stupidity that penetrates our minds and will eventually destroy us. — Frank Iero
Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity. — Thomas Sowell
The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask! — Jessica Simpson
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
Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe. — Neil Gaiman
Be afraid of a stupid friend, not of a smart enemy. — Turkish Proverbs
Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. — Christopher Hitchens
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. — Voltaire
The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it. — Peter Drucker
When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent. — Arsene Wenger
A gastronomer who is not an environmentalis t is just stupid. Whereas an environmentalis t who is not a gastronomer is sad. It's possible to change the world even while preserving the concept of the right of pleasure. — Carlo Petrini
By the end of this decade - 2030, we will be extending the healthy human lifespan by decades. Your job is not to die from something stupid in the interim. — Peter Diamandis
You, me, and everything we do will one day be forgotten. It will be as if we never existed, even though we did. Nobody will care. Just like right now, almost nobody cares what you actually say or do with your life. And this is actually really good news: it means you can get away with a lot of stupid shit and people will forget and forgive you for it. It means that there’s absolutely no reason to not be the person that you want to be. The pain of un-inhibiting yourself will be fleeting and the reward will last a lifetime. — Mark Manson
Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naïve faith, requires necessary illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications, which are provided by the myth maker to keep the ordinary person on course. — Sayings
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others. — Samuel Johnson
Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea. If I'd known what was coming, I would've called in sick. I could've avoided an army of demons, a fight with a Titan, and a trick that almost got my friends and me cast into eternal darkness. But no, I had to take my stupid English exam. — Rick Riordan
People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institution in the country did not help them widen their economic base. — Muhammad Yunus
We're not sexists, we're chauvinists - we're male chauvinist pigs, and we're happy to be because we think that's what men were destined to be. We think that's what women want. — Rush Limbaugh
Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them. — Jerry Falwell
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
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