Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Neal Shusterman

This game's stupid," said Lief. "Who the heck is Zelda, anyway?

Neal Shusterman

You are so obtuse!" Brontë says, exasperated. I am calm in my response. "Do you mean stupid, or angular? You need to be more specific with your insults.

Miles Davis

I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don't know.

Marcel Proust

As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect us from others that are more serious.

Marcel Proust

...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

Joseph Addison

Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.

Joseph Addison

Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

Joseph Addison

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.

Joseph Addison

A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

In our rather stupid time, hunting is belittled and misunderstood, many refusing to see it for the vital vacation from the human condition that it is, or to acknowledge that the hunter does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, he kills in order to have hunted.

Jordin Sparks

It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!

Joni Mitchell

Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.

Kevin Smith

It's not like someday my kid's gonna be standing over my grave, and somebody's gonna hang her a folded flag and say, 'You know what? This is 'cause he did 24 hours straight on Twitter.' But it's just one of those little personal victories, like, 'I wonder if I can do this.' And I did it. A stupid goal, but I accomplished it. Life's all about...for me, at least...having very stupid achievable goals. That way, you always feel like a winner.

Kevin Spacey

I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.

Kelley Armstrong

When I leaned a little too close to the doorway, my inner voice piped up, telling me not to be stupid. The guy with the bionic senses was better equipped for this.

Kelley Armstrong

One second he was in my face, making me feel stupid and useless. The next he was like this: hovering, concerned, worried.

Kelley Armstrong

Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he's telling me I don't have to let him make me feel stupid.

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.