Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Rebecca Mader

Actors who say they don't watch TV are stupid. I was raised by TV! And it's how I research for auditions.

Raymond E. Feist

Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

Richard Gere

I'm rarely in a situation where, if you have a good idea, it's not embraced. That's stupid. And I don't work with stupid people.

Rebecca Hall

I quite enjoy cooking but I'm not consistent. I can't follow the recipe book. If something goes well, I'll never make it again, which is completely stupid. It's a one-shot kind of deal.

Tucker Max

General reader feedback is usually pretty worthless. 99% of people give feedback that is irrelevant, stupid, or just flat out wrong. But that 1% of people who give good feedback are invaluable.

Trey Gowdy

It's really beneath the office of a member of Congress to say something that outrageous. The fact that she was once the Speaker is mind-numbing, honestly... mind-numbingly stupid.

Trey Parker

If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'

Trey Parker

I would let my kids watch this stuff way before I'd let them watch something like 'Full House' that I think would make them stupid.

Trey Parker

Sean Penn's really the only one stupid enough to put anything down on paper.

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.