Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Fulghum

Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.

Robert Blair

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

Rita Ora

The public's not stupid.

Rick Mercer

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

Thomas Huxley

My reflection, when I first made myself master of the central idea of the 'Origin', was, 'How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!'

Thomas Huxley

What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from undigested learning.

Timothy Leary

I think that marijuana makes you stupid but sensual. I've watched many of my friends and loved ones become more erotic and dumber - just going around with a glazed expression on their faces from their last orgasms to the next - and found them really quite boring.

Timothy Leary

There are no bad drugs. There's simply stupid people who don't know how to use them.

Thomas Sowell

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.

Thomas Sowell

There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.

Robert Musil

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

Vita Sackville-West

It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.

Saul Bellow

I am more stupid about some things than others; not equally stupid in all directions; I am not a well-rounded person.

Saul Bellow

Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.

Sarah Dessen

Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.

Sarah Dessen

Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

Sarah Dessen

It's so, so stupid what we do to ourselves because we're afraid. It's so stupid.

Sarah Dessen

it sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics...

Ronnie O'Sullivan

People think I don't like interviews but I don't mind speaking about proper and interesting stuff. When it's stupid stuff to build your image and you are told to mention this and mention that, I hate it.

Roger Waters

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

Roger Ebert

If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy. It's not so bad it's good. It's so bad it's nothing else but bad.

Robin McKinley

What was new was the fact that, despite my heart doing its fight-or-flight, help-we're-prey-and-HEY-STUPID-THAT'S-A-VAMPIRE number, I was glad to see him. Ridiculous but true. Scary but true.

Robert M. Hutchins

Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.

Sarah Vowell

I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys. Because to me, they are very specific, fascinating, sometimes brilliant, judgmental killjoys who rarely agreed on anything except that Catholics are going to Hell.

Sarah McLachlan

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

Samuel Johnson

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

Samuel Johnson

Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.

Robert Anton Wilson

Stupidity is a blockage in the ability to receive, integrate and transmit new signals.

Robert Anton Wilson

In summary, Intelligence Intensification is desirable, because there is not a single problem confronting humanity that is not either caused or considerably worsened by the prevailing stupidity (insensitivity) of the species: badly wired robots bumping into and maiming and killing each other.

Robert Anton Wilson

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.

Robert Anton Wilson

I read at least one periodical every month by a political group I dislike - to keep some sense of balance. The overwhelming stupidity of political movements is caused by the fact that political types never read anything but their own gang's agit-prop.

Rob Paulsen

I know a lot of successful people and none of them are stupid.

Richard M. Nixon

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.