Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel de Montaigne

It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable; this is a common fault in those who think they have more intelligence than the crowd.

Michel de Montaigne

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

Michel de Montaigne

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

Markus Zusak

When death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.' Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry. Yes. I like that a lot.

Markus Zusak

They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls. Was it fate?Misfortune?Is that what glued them down like that?Of course not.Let's not be stupid.It probably had more to do with the hurled bombs, thrown down by humans hiding in the clouds.

Mario Balotelli

Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people.

Marilyn Manson

If I think I weigh too much, I'll lose weight; if my hair looks stupid, I'll cut it. I guess I'm my harshest critic. I'm not easily satisfied.

Marilyn Manson

I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use.

Marilyn Manson

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

Michael Haneke

What I like are films that take me seriously, that don't treat me as more stupid than I am.

Frank Miller

People are attempting to bring a superficial reality to superheroes which is rather stupid. They work best as the flamboyant fantasies they are. I mean, these are characters that are broad and big. I don't need to see sweat patches under Superman's arms. I want to see him fly.

Christopher Hitchens

We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant. He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der Post. He was bowled over by the charms of homeopathic medicine. He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way

Christopher Hitchens

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

Christopher Hitchens

There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement of IQ.

Christopher Dodd

Eight more days and I can start telling the truth again

Christian Louboutin

For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.

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!

Fran Lebowitz

I have always preferred the company of older people. No one in the history of the world has had less interest in the young than I do. I am not interested in what young people are thinking. They're thinking less than old people, of course. I mean, what could they be thinking? And what are they doing? They're doing the same stupid things you did.

George Vecsey

Here's one thing I never say anymore: These people can't be that stupid, can they?

George Santayana

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.

George Santayana

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

George Santayana

There is no dunce like a mature dunce.

George Orwell

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

George Michael

Stupid cupid keeps on calling me, but I see nothing in his eyes. I miss my babe

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.