Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Michael

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Everything seems stupid when it fails.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself into anything, that only a fool can make anything he wants out of himself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There's no defense against stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

Franklin P. Adams

Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical.

Franz Grillparzer

You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

Franz Grillparzer

Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.

Jeff Lindsay

For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.

Jeff Lindsay

But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.

Jeff Lindsay

I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.

Jeff Lindsay

Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.

Jeanette Winterson

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

Jessie J

I am a dork in disguise; I love doing stupid stuff.

Jemima Kirke

I think I did a lot of really stupid stuff really quickly in my twenties and that sort of led me to want to sort of just relax a little bit. Relax a lot.

Jen Kirkman

I realized that even I have weird intimacy issues with humans - like, I need my friendships to get deeper, I need to be locked in, I need to remember people's names. I know this sounds really stupid, but I just need to be more present in my life.

George Eliot

It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.

George Eliot

Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.

George Eliot

These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.

Gary Numan

I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

Gary Numan

I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.