Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Mirren

Fear can be one of the most destructive emotions. It is, of course, also very important, in that fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgement of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives.

Heinrich Heine

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

Heinrich Heine

A brainiac notices everything, an ignoramus comments about everything.

Hilary Mantel

She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'" "He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.

Hilaire Belloc

In the same way the eminence attaching to the mere possession of great wealth disappoints us nine times out of ten, especially if the wealth has been accumulated rapidly. For great wealth is accumulated rapidly by cunning or chance, or a mixture of the two. Cunning has nothing to do with high qualities; it is rather a presumption against them; while chance has nothing to do with them either. Therefore it is that men are always complaining after meeting So-and-so, that he seemed to be astonishingly stupid, though he made a million in ten years and started as a pauper.

Heraclitus

Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.

Henry James

To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that. Then she wondered if it were vain and stupid to think so well of herself. When had it even been a guarantee to be valuable? Wasn't all history full of the destruction of precious things? Wasn't it much more probable that if one were fine one would suffer?

Johanna Lindsey

Stupid people always ignored good advice

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Stupidity is without anxiety.

Joe Torre

You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid, or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid, he's stupid.

Joe Lieberman

It (Lewinskygate) has...compromised his moral authority

Joaquin Andujar

I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.

Joaquin Phoenix

I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.

Emma Stone

People aren't stupid. People wanna see good movies, especially comedies. Those by the books comedies, I don't get it. Who likes those? Nobody likes those.

John Mellencamp

The greatest thing that ever happened to (my career) was the breakdown of the record companies, because there were no more stupid questions about how many hits are on the next record. It was very liberating.

John Hewson

To make us a terrorist target in a region that is full of terrorism is dumb and unforgiveable.

Bertrand Russell

When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.

Bertrand Russell

One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.

Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads.

Edgar Allan Poe

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Edsger Dijkstra

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

Gerard Way

no matter how ugly the world gets or how stupid it shows me it is, I always have faith

Hans Christian Andersen

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.

Hans Christian Andersen

Well, it's not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!

Hal Holbrook

One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

Greta Van Susteren

I like really stupid comedies.

Greta Garbo

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.

Gordon Bethune

We're a stupid industry led by stupid people,

Giuseppe Verdi

Stupid criticism and still more stupid praise.

Georgette Heyer

[He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment; and he would have thought himself extremely stupid to withhold what cost him so little and was productive of such desirable results.