Stupid Questions Quotes

• If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

  Scott Adams

  Funny, Smart, Stupid

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• If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid; if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.

  Tony Rothman

  Stupid, May, Feels

  Tony Rothman (1995). “Instant Physics: From Aristotle to Einstein, and Beyond”, Ballantine Books

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• The only stupid question is the question that is never asked.

  Ramon Bautista

  Stupid

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• Only stupid questions create wealth.

  Gary Hamel

  Stupid, Wealth, Foolishness

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• My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions

  Gina Gershon

  Stupid, Knowing, Answers

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• When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.

  Chris Isaak

  Stupid, People, Embarrassed

  "Chris Isaak is a 'Lucky' new man". Interview with Shanon Cook, edition.cnn.com. March 4, 2009.

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• It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

  Cory Doctorow

  Stupid, Thinking, People

  Cory Doctorow (2015). “For The Win”, p.69, Booklassic

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• You can get good science out of stupid questions. If someone says the world is flat, maybe in proving them wrong you can calculate the curvature of the Earth more precisely.

  Gavin Schmidt

  Stupid, World, Earth

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• If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest drown too?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Dumb Questions

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• Well, it's not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Stupid, Giving, Answers

  Hans Christian Andersen (1966). “The Snow Queen, and Other Tales”

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• I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Stupid, Believe, Talking

  Harry Stack Sullivan (1965). “The interpersonal theory of psychiatry”

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• If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Stupid, Hate, Band

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• Never tell anyone what you are going to do till you've done it.

  Cornelius Vanderbilt

  Done

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• Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test.

  Alfie Kohn

  Stupid, Tests, Said

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• If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girl, Stupid, Don't Give Up

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

  Ronald Reagan

  Stupid, Government, Answers

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• By now, we have learnt that game-changing ideas do not come from experts, they come from people who haven't got a clue and ask stupid questions.

  Chris Boardman

  Stupid, Games, Ideas

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• If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

  Dorothy Parker

  Funny, Anniversary, Valentines Day

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• 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.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Stupid, Intelligent, Voice

  "No: 1561 Blondes", www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2000.

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• I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.

  J. D. Salinger

  Stupid, Mean, Thinking

  "The Catcher in the Rye". Book by J. D. Salinger (Chapter 26), July 16, 1951.

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• Why do you ask The Rock stupid questions? Why are you an ugly hermaphrodite? Nobody knows, Kevin Kelly.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Stupid, Rocks, Wwe

  "Line-o-rama: The Rock Says" By Matt Fowler, www.ign.com. July 2, 2009.

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• 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.

  Maura Tierney

  Cancer, Stupid, Believe

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• They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.

  Bobby Fischer

  Stupid, Years, Etc

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• What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?" "I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you." "Why?" "Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?

  Rick Riordan

  War, Stupid, Fighting

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• It's fun to be in California. The police are kind of weird here. They ask you stupid questions. 'Do you know why I pulled you over?' Because I have pot in the glove compartment?

  Robert Schimmel

  Fun, Stupid, California

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