Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mencius

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

Mick Ebeling

Surround yourself with people who make you feel stupid.

Michel Houellebecq

The most stupid religion is Islam.

Michel Gondry

I was sort of lazy at school, but I realize I still have something to bring to the subject which is comforting. I feel I am not as stupid as I thought I was.

Michael Jordan

Can I still dunk... Are you stupid?

Michael Jordan

You're an idiot. You've screwed up every play we ever ran. You're too stupid to even remember the plays. We ought to get rid of you.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.

Mark Zuckerberg

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don't want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren't. There are pranks, IMs.

Markus Zusak

I'm just another stupid human.

Teri Garr

Sandy: Boy, you must really think I'm stupid or something. Jeff: Ahh, no one would call you stupid, to your face.

Ted Turner

If I sold all my liabilities, I wouldn't own anything. My wife's a liability, my kids are liabilities, and I haven't sold them.

Ted Turner

It's been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid.

Ted Cruz

I'm a maniac, and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly. And Ben [Carson] you're a terrible surgeon.

Theodor Adorno

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.

Theodor Adorno

The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent.

Theodor Adorno

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.

Thelonious Monk

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.

Terry Pratchett

I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.

Terry Pratchett

Right!" "Right!" "You can get there!" "I can get there!" "You're a natural at counting to two!" "I'm a nat'ral at counting to two!" "If you can count to two, you can count to anything!" "If I can count to two, I can count to anything!" "And then the world is your mollusc!" "My mollusc! What's a mollusc?

Terry Pratchett

People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a library.

Margaret Sanger

Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that has resulted from our stupid, cruel sentimentalism.

Marcus Buckingham

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

Michael Lewis

People were paid lots of money to make stupid decisions, people in big banks, and when people are paid to be stupid they'll be stupid. The question was, did they know they were being stupid or were they just stupid? I think you need to take it on a case by case basis. There was some sinister activity, but I think by and by it was people being incentivised to do the wrong thing.

Melissa Marr

Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things.

Michele Bachmann

Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.

We think they should pay €60 for being so stupid.

When you look at the number of stupid people who have succeeded in business, you clearly don't have to be very bright. Business is all about getting your sales up and your costs down, the bit in the middle is profit.

Michael Palin

People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.

Michael Palin

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

Neal Stephenson

..this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this place. There's other people all around you, but they don't understand you and you don't understand them, but people do a lot of pointless babbling anyway. In order to stay alive, you have to spend all day every day doing stupid meaningless work. And the only way to get out of it is to quit, cut loose, take a flyer, and go off into the wicked world, where you will be swallowed up and never heard from again.

Neal Stephenson

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

Neal Stephenson

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.