Very Stupid Quotes Page 2

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common.

Instead of changing their views to fit the facts, they try to change the facts to fit their views.

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.

I had been writing comic books for years and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults. And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic... And those were all things I hated.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

My opposition to war was not because of the horrors of war, not because war demands that the race offer up its very best in their full vigor, not because war means economic bankruptcy, domination of races by famine and disease, but because war is so completely ineffective, so stupid. It settles nothing.

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.

Rumors excite the stupid, facts excite the smart.

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.

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.

Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed - Still with his dulness was he cursed - Dull -beyond all conception - dull.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

I hate people saying anything stupid.

I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.

When I was doing theater in the 1950's, 60's and 70's we weren't allowed to film any of the shows that I did, it was against union rules. It was a stupid law, because so much is lost. We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking.

A stupid man's report of what clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Once upon a time millions applauded and supported Adolf Hitler;

ignorant masses often cannot see the simple truths and evidently they do not have the ability to see the very clear ends! The stupidity of the ignorant masses has been proven thousands of times in the history! Each time they follow the wrong leader and in the end fall in the cesspool!

A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad.

... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.

The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future.

Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly bottom line, derived by closing the R&D department.

You can fool some people sometimes, but you can't fool all the people all the time.

I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

I know just enough about thermodynamics to understand that if it takes too much fossil-fuel energy to create ethanol, that's a very stupid way to solve an energy problem.

We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth.

Don’t do something permanently stupid just because you are temporarily upset

We have a lot of work to do and I‘m afraid that it‘s a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border.

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.

From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climd a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.

I will be very sad when global warming and toxins kill off all the toads and frogs and salamanders. Here's hoping we, as humans, figure out a way to be less stupid.

If form is mechanically applied, it may indeed result in work that is conventional, if not pedantic or stupid. But form used well can become the very vehicle of freedom, of discovering the creative surprises that liberate mind-at-play.

Worrying is stupid. It is like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

Being in writers' rooms turns you feral.

You are swearing, you are going to very dark, mean places. You start out in the room with all these smart people, and you're all well-read and well-educated and the humor is really erudite. And then over the course of the year, after the production schedule grinds you down, it is just so mean and stupid.

I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online.

It's a very bad idea, and there's a lot of angry people in the world. And it's weird to absorb all that weirdness.

Don't let little stupid things break your happiness

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.

Truly, the only stupid people I've ever met, the most absolutely clueless, are the very people that produce television.

I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. - The sea witch.

The trouble with the world is the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.

In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.