Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

Gary Hamel

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.

Gary Hamel

Only stupid questions create wealth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.

Friedrich Nietzsche

But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.

Jessica Simpson

Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken of the Sea.'

Giacomo Casanova

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

Georgia O'Keeffe

School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to be at least paint as I wanted to and say what I wanted to when I painted as that seemed to be the only thing I could do that didn't concern anybody but myself ... I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way things that I had no words for.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

Ellen DeGeneres

I watch people's behavior and notice things. I think that's why I became a comedian. I notice how stupid the things we do are.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.

Ian MacKaye

I don't think it's an ethical or moral issue, or even that people are stupid, but I do feel like as a culture things are out of balance, perverted, and inverted. Things that are ridiculous are worshipped, and things that are important are ridiculed. I think that's something worth thinking about.

Ian Gillan

I haven't ever had any ambition in my life. I just drift from day to day with a stupid grin on my face.

Hugh Laurie

People are more open about seeking help these days. They recognise the fact that the alternative to having a shrink is that you bore your friends stupid. So I figured that I might as well give someone 100 bucks an hour to hear my woes. At least someone can make a living out of listening to my tedious problems.

Horace Greeley

Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.

Homer

Boy, everyone is stupid except me.

Homer

If you're gonna get mad at me every time I do something stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things.

Homer

Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything.

Hunter S. Thompson

Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.

Hunter S. Thompson

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Hunter S. Thompson

Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world-or been beaten and gassed by Police for trespassing on public property-or been hounded by the IRS for purely political reasons-or locked up in the Cook County Jail with a broken nose and no phone access and twelve perverts wanting to stomp your ass in the shower. That is when it matters who is President or Governor or Police Chief. That is when you will wish you had voted.

Honore de Balzac

They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.

Honore de Balzac

Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

Hassan Rouhani

Ahmadinijad was stupid enbough to be a wolf in wolf's clothing, to expose his teeth and nails and alert the west. I can be a wolf in sheep's clothing. I have all the diplomatic and rhetoric skills to do so.

Harvey Pekar

There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or slightly underestimate themselves, but stupid people overestimate their intelligence and by huge margins. (And these were things like straight up math tests, not controversial IQ tests.)

James D. Watson

A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

James D. Watson

A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.

James Blunt

Absolutely, it's a really weird stage because at the minute, I can walk down the street and be unrecognised, lead a normal life, but my label and everybody is warning me that will be changing and I'm in for a rollercoaster ride.

James Blunt

My life is brillant, My love is pure.