Quotes on Stupid

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

I think people read the tabloids because they want to see you eating a burger, or out of your makeup or doing something stupid because they just want to see that you're like everyone else. And that's okay. I don't want to catch myself anymore saying that my life is hard, because the good far outweighs the bad in my life. And it's easier to focus on those things, on the things that are important.

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion.

I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy.

No one looks stupid when they're having fun.

It is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

I want to live as long as possible, just to see how stupid it gets.

It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

He is so stupid you can't trust him with an idea.

The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

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.