As Dumb As Quotes

#1. Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person.

Richard P. Feynman

#2. Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our culture educates its children better explains why most of us come out as dumb as they do, than it explains how some of us come out as smart as they do.

Marvin Minsky

#3. The stock market goes nuts over any company that so much as mentions the word Internet. All this proves to me is that the boneheads on Wall Street are as dumb as they were in college when they had to switch their majors to business to keep from flunking out.

John C. Dvorak

#4. You're never as smart as you think you are when you are winning and never as dumb as you feel when you are losing.

Michael Hyatt

#5. Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is.

David Allan Coe

#6. I kinda liked ol' Shakespeare and them guys, you know. I went back and got my master's just in case. I thought, if I ever needed it, I'd have the sheepskin to show people no matter how dumb I looked, actually I was about half intelligent. I got the degree to let 'em know I wasn't as dumb as I acted.

Phil Robertson

#7. The secret of the demagogue is to appear as dumb as his audience so that these people can believe themselves as smart as he is.

Rebecca Goldstein

#8. Audiences are far from being as dumb as some performers seem to think.

Theodore Annemann

#9. But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could be as dumb as me, and I don't have to be very smart.

Beth Henley

#10. Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of 'em.

Charles De Lint

#11. When people say "How dumb do you think I am?" I answer "You can't possibly be as dumb as I think you are." 09-19-2014

Jan Thomas

#12. Fucking beautiful," I whisper.
She smiles and then ducks her head. "I feel stupid."
"I barely know you, so I'm not about to argue with you over your level of intelligence, because you could very well be as dumb as a rock. But at least you're pretty.

Colleen Hoover

#13. If you were God, what kind of human would you create?" I asked.

"I wouldn't change how they look. But I would make them as dumb as chickens. So dumb they'd never even imagine the existence of a god.

Hitomi Kanehara

#14. Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.

Henry David Thoreau

#15. If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.

Arnold Rothstein

#16. Good for you Woods. You're not as dumb as you look. Come to think of it, no one's as dumb as you look.

Randy Alcorn

#17. Don't be afraid Mr. Onaka, we need you because none of us drives.
Can you imagine anything as dumb as that? They were going to make a revolution and they didn't even know how to drive a car.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#18. You shouldn't be proud of being good at something, if you were born with it. That would be as dumb as being proud of having two legs, or speaking a language, or pooping.

Orson Scott Card

#19. We were called 'Three Men Who, When Standing Side by Side, Have a Wingspan of Over Twelve Feet.' We had that name for a week or so. We were also called 'Are You My Mother?' for awhile. We went through a lot of really dumb band names - almost as dumb as Fountains of Wayne.

Adam Schlesinger

#20. The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

Richard P. Feynman

#21. You're a vampire?"
"Yes."
"So what does that make me, your victim?"
"You're clearly not as dumb as you look.

John Hennessy

#22. Apparently this month is full of surprises. No one is as dumb as I thought they were.

Elizabeth Norris

#23. Darleen studies her drawing, then she looks up.

'It's not that I don't believe you can get a B,' she says. 'I don't think you're half as dumb as you think I think you are.'

If I was smarter, I'm sure I could figure that out.

K.L. Going

#24. I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Richard P. Feynman

#25. In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.

P. J. O'Rourke

#26. And, as dumb as I am, I think that these days are gonna last forever.

Sandra Kring

#27. Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated.

Ibn Khaldun

#28. Bundle! Chuck shouted agin, nonsensically, as he hurled himself on top of them. It was as if he were re-creating a scene from some dumb college frat movie he'd loved but no one else had ever seen.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#29. I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Steve Kroft

#30. Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Henry Kissinger

#31. All women are lifelong members of the Secret Service...So, if you must lie, better make sure you cover your tracks because there is no such thing as a 'dumb blonde'...

Virginia Alison

#32. No way that was a act. She really is that gullible. She really is dumb as a sack of moondust."
"Yet very sweet."
Eve rolled her eyes toward him. "I think you have to have a penis to get that impression.

J.D. Robb

#33. Strike two. Add dumb as a box of rocks to the list of why I don't like these guys. I got to my feet, deciding to play nice. After all, they were just poor dumb guys who couldn't help it that there weren't enough brains in their genes.

Dinah Katt

#34. The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.

John Updike

#35. The dog proved to be as dumb and stubborn as a mud fence, so Stranahan had named him Strom.

Carl Hiaasen

#36. Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of these petty passions and petty crimes which calls itself the world of politics.

Vladimir Odoevsky

#37. [Apostol Paul's] views were translated as, "Your rule is to be kind to black people; you don't beat them." It's very much the way we treated women in the 14th and 15th centuries. A woman was not human, and you should be kind to your wife like you are to all dumb animals. That was the mentality.

John Shelby Spong

#38. Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.

Winifred Holtby

#39. To live without love for others is to live in aridity, to be self-serving and fruitless. To live without understanding is to live without sense or purpose. To live without awareness is to live as the deaf, blind and dumb in a world of vibrant light and sound.

Belsebuub

#40. I'm not a horror movie guy, but I think the guy that did Saw, or maybe House or something, he was saying you love that age as a storyteller because a nineteen-year-old is still dumb enough to make really bad decisions, but he's allowed to be out on his own.

Craig Finn

#41. People love to compare the worst of themselves to animals: dumb as an ox, fat as a pig, lame as a duck. Maybe animals see our shortcomings the same way: boneheaded as a human.

Bruce Edwards

#42. A week is a long time in politics, and three weeks is twice as long.

Rosie Barnes

#43. How about," Jane suggested, "some dumb question as to what a refinery does?" "Good idea," fired back Col. "What does a refinery do?" Connie asked. Anneena and Col groaned.

Julia Golding

#44. Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

Andrew Greeley

#45. Mean as yellow jackets, dumb as dirt. He sighed, the sharp exhale like the hiss of the plants all around.

Laura Ruby

#46. As you get older you realize your parents don't look so dumb - and that you're not as smart as you thought you were.

Paul Reiser

#47. Dumb as he looked, he never missed an insult.
Dr. Rowan musing about Simple Silas

Ava Gray

#48. The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.

Sylvester Stallone

#49. My friends scoffed at my anxiety and said dumb things like, 'Fifty is the new forty!' Which just made me realize that there are a whole lot of other people who suck at math as bad as I do. No. Fifty is fifty.

Celia Rivenbark

#50. Why do you think you are always right?" Asks a dumb person that can't understand why I make a living as a self-help author or why she is wasting my time and I will never speak to her ever again.

Robin Sacredfire

#51. I had read once that dumb people didn't know they were dumb. They thought they were just as smart as anybody else. That was a very unsettling thought. What if I was really dumb and didn't know it?

Dinah Katt

#52. Cal 's eyes reflected a weird combination of frenzy and fear as he twisted toward his father. My God!
She's on her way to becoming the most famous physicist in the country, and she's dumb as a post ! You are not having your baby in this house! You're having it at the county hospital!

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#53. I use the camera as a dumb copying device that only serves to document whatever phenomenon appears before it through the conditions set by a system. No esthetic choices are possible. Other people often make the photographs. It makes no difference.

Douglas Huebler

#54. Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.

Barry Diller

#55. Uhtred of Steapa - He might be dumb as a parsnip but he knows how to fight.

Bernard Cornwell

#56. We have Democrats saying dumb things every single day, and Republicans as well.

Emanuel Cleaver

#57. The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

Norman Foster

#58. People are so fucking dumb. Nobody reads anymore, nobody goes out and looks and explores the society and culture they were brought up in. People have attention spans of five seconds and as much depth as a glass of water.

David Bowie

#59. The sound of Big Ben striking the half-hour struck out between them with extraordinary vigour, as if a young man, strong, indifferent, inconsiderate, were swinging dumb-bells this way and that.

Virginia Woolf

#60. Wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.

Tim Bray

#61. As humans we speak one language ...

Avril Lavigne

#62. Record companies would rather you stay dumb, not even think of it as a business, so they can either rip you off or get you out of the way in five years to make way for the new groups.

George Clinton

#63. Most people I work with are older than me and the main thing I've learnt is that everyone is a dumb as an 18-year-old.

Seth Rogen

#64. It was as if my rationale had a stupid friend that was always getting up to no good.

S.A. Tawks

#65. There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.

Carl Sagan

#66. Why do these dumb fucks keep guns around the house? They make the world as ruinous as they imagine it is.

Esme Raji Codell

#67. I wouldn't be at all surprised, as hideous and dumb as it sounds, at an invasion of Iraq.

Hunter S. Thompson

#68. Americans want beauties, not me. I'm not the Parisian bombshell they expected. Can you see me as a chorus girl? Where's my feather up the ass? They think I'm sad, they're dumb. I don't connect to them.

Edith Piaf

#69. Happiness is a carnival game. It's never as easy as it looks, but the dumb ones always seem to be walking around with a big stuffed animal.

Dov Davidoff

#70. The hard part was living the contrast between being rich and being broke. It was like being smart, and waking up one day to find yourself dumb as a rock, but able to remember your former brains.

John Elder Robison

#71. Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.

Brian Setzer

#72. The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

Kurt Vonnegut

#73. Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.

C.S. Lewis

#74. Face falling, her sister pushed a crumb around her plate. 'I feel dumb now. I shouldn't have called you - I know you must be sad and busy because of the Falling.' She squashed the crumb, staring at it as if it were the most important thing on the planet.

Nalini Singh

#75. Coelho is, of course, entitled to his dumb opinion, just as I am entitled to think Coelho's work is a nauseous broth of egomania and snake-oil mysticism with slightly less intellect, empathy and verbal dexterity than the week-old camembert I threw out yesterday.

Stuart Kelly

#76. Students are expected to demonstrate creativity and perform service in order to get into college, but no one thinks they should be dumb enough to take them seriously as vocational goals.

William Deresiewicz

#77. Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me.

Bum Phillips

#78. I think of her as a silly girl who's just fooling around at art school, too dumb to get into university, although I don't make judgments like this about the boys.

Margaret Atwood

#79. It was as if he (Sigmar Polke) painted his imagery in a highly wrought way, instead of a calculatedly dumb way, or mechanical way, by silk-screening or by tracing from epidiascope projections, and so on.

Matthew Collings

#80. In 50 years it won't matter if he's handsome, ugly, or dumb as a post, just try to find someone who don't make you want to shove a pitchfork up his nose.

Lois Greiman

#81. I've been up and down so many times that I feel as if I'm in a revolving door.

Cher

#82. You're the first bangin' *ss hot b*tch I ever met that's got her sh*t together. Most hot b*tches are dumb as fuck.

Scott Hildreth

#83. I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.

Uma Thurman

#84. Darwin's theory is as dead as he is. Everyone is surviving, fit or not. Years ago, any kid dumb enough to chase a shiny object down a well was dead, and out of the gene pool. Now they got the technology and medicine to save the fool so he can breed more open mouth breathers.

Lenny Bruce

#85. So long as men are compassionate to such a degree that they cannot hear a fly struggling in a spider's web without emotion it can never be reasonably maintained that it is their natural impulse to wound and kill the dumb animals, or to butcher one another in what is called the field of honour.

John Newton

#86. Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

Francis Bacon

#87. I was the ref. I was the ref they didn't know about. Deaf and dumb. Invisible as a wall. I wanted no one to win

Roddy Doyle

#88. Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.

Amy Lee

#89. She reaches for me then, angry in her tenderness as only Dina can be. Not as a navigator, you dumb bitch.

Ann Aguirre

#90. You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It's one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.

Ted Cruz

#91. I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he's dumb as an ashtray.

Roger Ailes

#92. As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and sometimes writing takes a turn and it's not something we necessarily have control over. It's just a lot of random dumb luck, so when things click, you've just got to enjoy it.

Mike Colter

#93. I don't want to brag about how dumb I am, but this job is plain as astronomy to me. I understand everything about it except what you have done and why, and what you're trying to do and how.

Dashiell Hammett

#94. It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.

Abraham Maslow

#95. The Bay-man has made the worst and most worthless Transformers movie yet. I know, hard to believe, right? How could any summer blockbuster be as dull, dumb and soul-sucking as the first three Transformers movies? Step right up.

Peter Travers

#96. Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.

Mario Batali

#97. Musk began thinking back to his time as an intern at the Bank of Nova Scotia. His big takeaway from that job, that bankers are rich and dumb, now had the feel of a massive opportunity.

Ashlee Vance

#98. I batted my eyelashes and did my best to appear dumb as a board

Ilona Andrews

#99. Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges.

Jeff Abbott

#100. Accustomed, as it is, to think of man as a dualism of mind and body, and to regard the former as "sensible" and the latter as a "dumb" animal, our cultture is an affront to the wisdom of nature and a ruinous exploitation of the human organism as a whole.

Alan W. Watts