Being Stupid Quotes

• I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

  Jim Carrey

  Funny, Stupid, Support

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• Love is being stupid together.

  Paul Valery

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

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• We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Work, Stupid

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• Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

  John Wayne

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

  Northrop Frye

  Kings, Stupid, Sheep

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.143, Princeton University Press

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• It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

  Andy Partridge

  Stupid, Rocks, Would Be

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• Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Witty, Kings

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 4

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  Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

  Euripides

  Relationship, Stupid, Communication

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

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• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Hilarious, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• I wish I were dumber so I could be more certain about my opinions. It looks fun.

  Scott Adams

  Funny, Stupidity, Dumb

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• Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Animal, Pyramids

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Pyramids: (Discworld Novel 7)”, p.165, Random House

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• As long as we are flippant and stupid and shallow and think that we know ourselves, we shall never give ourselves over to Jesus Christ; but when once we become conscious that we are infinitely more than we can fathom, and infinitely greater in possibility either for good or bad than we can know, we shall be only too glad to hand ourselves over to Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Christian, Religious

  Oswald Chambers, Harry Verploegh (1990). “The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes”, Oliver-Nelson Books

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• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Best Friend, Friendship, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.195, Harvard University Press

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• For most of us, I think it's easier to admit doing wrong than being stupid.

  Stephen King

  Stupid, Thinking, Easier

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.501, Simon and Schuster

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• The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Success, Confidence

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• Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

  Oscar Wilde

  Money, Clever, Stupid

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.51, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• You don't get old being stupid.

  Chili Davis

  Stupid

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• Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder.

  George V. Higgins

  Stupid, Life Is Hard, Harder

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• The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

  Harlan Ellison

  Funny, Life, Stupid

  Harlan Ellison, Arnie Fenner (2011). “Bugf#ck: The Useless Wit & Wisdom of Harlan Ellison”

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• Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.

  Michel Gondry

  Fun, Stupid, Ideas

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• You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid.

  Scott Lynch

  Stupid, Past, Helping

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.126, Del Rey

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• It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is dreadful is that the world goes on and people go on being stupidly cruel - in the old ways and all the time.

  Ford Madox Ford

  People, Suffering, Goes On

  Ford Madox Ford (1923). “The Marsden Case: A Romance”

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• I wanted to be like an actor or a comedian for a little while, because I was always wanting to make people laugh, and being stupid, so I never thought I'd be doing a job where you always have to look nice, and polished and sophisticated.

  Gemma Ward

  Jobs, Stupid, Nice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

  Paul David Tripp

  Stupid, Ignorance, Pride

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• To be just without being mad (and the madder you get the madder you get), to be peaceful without being stupid, to be interested without being compulsive, to be happy without being hysterical... smoke grass.

  Ken Kesey

  Stupid, Mad, Peaceful

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