Quotes on Stupid

It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

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.

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.

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

I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again.

Nobody gave me what I wanted for my birthday! Nobody! What sort of presents do you call these? New shoes, a green sweater and a bunch of stupid toys!" "What were you expecting?" "Real estate!

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn't matter whether you're bold or cowardly, or whether you're stupid or intelligent. Doesn't get you anywhere.

I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I'd hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. I didn't go to school. I couldn't deal.

When I was going through my cancer treatment, I learned that you can never ask a stupid question. I asked every single question that came to my mind, and I believe that helped to calm my own anxiety.

Once I put that wig on, I didn't say an intelligent thing for four months. My voice went up. I walked differently. I'd ask incredibly stupid questions.

Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things should be the least of our worries. The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal,' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial.

And we'd had this stupid scene on the street, and even that was kind of cool, because sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them that make you feel alive.

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.