Top 88 Dumb But Smart Quotes
#1. Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do.
Chris Rock
#2. Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.
David Mitchell
#3. For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die.
Matt Mullenweg
#4. I'd rather be smart and poor than rich and dumb.
Ted Turner
#5. Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Eugene McCarthy
#6. An eye for an eye is smart, see, but love is dumb, lovers are fools.
David James Duncan
#7. I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
Omari Hardwick
#8. Don't be surprised by smart people doing bad choices! Dumb spirits seek to reborn with a better brain.
Robin Sacredfire
#9. My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.
John Dominic Crossan
#10. The rich girls steal, the pretty girls lie, the smart girls play dumb and the dumb girls spend their days trying to be all of the above.
Caleb
#11. Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.
Lisa Kudrow
#12. I'm a real dumb-dumb in real life. I'm just book smart. But definitely not street smart. The other day I lost my jacket in a cab. And I'll forget things every time I leave the house.
Masi Oka
#13. 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
#14. I don't know if many people realize that Dolph Lundgren is a chemical engineer. He's not a dumb blond guy. This guy is smart and he's a martial artist.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
#15. Obscenities ... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.
Andy Rooney
#16. I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead.
Moby
#17. Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot of toys. Hundreds of things. But computers are toys, and men like to mess around with smart dumb things. They feel creative.
Ray Bradbury
#18. I may not be smart enough to do everything, but I am dumb enough to try anything.
Geoff Johns
#20. I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.
Mike Myers
#21. I was so smart when I was a kid that I learnt that I was dumb fast.
Charles Manson
#22. We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.
Hunter S. Thompson
#23. If you're going to do something dumb, do it in a smart way. This is my advice for falling in love.
Jarod Kintz
#24. I'd had years of practise looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn't know. It's a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps telling me to read a book of Greek myths, but I don't see the need. It's easier just to have folks explain stuff.
Rick Riordan
#25. We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers.
Ann Romney
#26. Oswaldo was flummoxed by the fact that his friend could be so quiet, almost embarrassed, about his academic acumen, yet so damn loud and proud of his status as a premier campus drug dealer.
"I've never met anyone so smart but so fucking dumb," he told Rob.
Jeff Hobbs
#27. I play dumb like Jessica Simpson plays dumb. But we know exactly what we're doing. We're smart blondes.
Paris Hilton
#28. 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
#29. The great tragedy of our lives seems to be that we are smart enough to ask the questions of meaning but too dumb to really figure it out.
Donald Miller
#30. It's smart to be friends with one's sex partner but dumb to have sex with one's friends.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#31. I really made few uncrediable subscribes, which I want to put as "I'm glad, that I have done it". It's difficult to find such stuff, it's difficult without a knowledge to do something, but out there with this DUMB and Stupid people there is and people which are clever and smart.
Deyth Banger
#32. However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once.
Bruce McCulloch
#33. Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.
Terry Pratchett
#34. Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election Day, they'll be up at five in the morning.
Michael Moore
#35. Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.
Solomon Short
#36. I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?
Philip G. Zimbardo
#37. The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.
Kurt Vonnegut
#38. Rigg," said Father, "you're so smart and so dumb at the same time that it almost takes my breath awway
Orson Scott Card
#39. They think that they're smart and that the rest of us are dumb.
Joseph Heller
#40. 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
#41. An all encompassing uncertainty on the part of any person is either a sign of utter stupidity or extreme intelligence. Only the not so dumb, or the not so smart, are ever certain about anything.
Derek R. Audette
#42. Gee, thanks Dad. I promise to be a good boy and play nice with the other kids.(Kyrian)
Smart ass.(Julian)
Better than a dumb ass.(Kyrian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#43. I just don't like that you can either be ugly and smart or pretty and dumb, or ugly and nice or pretty and mean.
Jennifer Lawrence
#44. Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.
Lawrence Schiller
#45. A dog doesn't care if your rich or poor, smart or dumb. Give him your heart.. and he'll give you his.
Milo Gathema
#46. What's the point in being smart enough to read, if everything you read makes you dumb?"
- Fatts - Coffee and Sugar
C. Sean McGee
#47. You only know that you're smart because you're around dumb people from time to time!
Chris Rock
#48. Actually, most people don't think I have too much sense because I would rather be fairly intelligent and act dumb instead of not having any sense at all and try to act smart.
Phil Robertson
#49. Feelings are feelings. They don't have dumb or smart labels,
Cherise Sinclair
#50. Some people say I'm really ugly and anorexic; some say the only reason I'm on TV is because I'm pretty. I say to them: Get your slander straight. You are what you are, whether you're small or skinny or smart or dumb. Just do what you do.
Ann Coulter
#51. Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. ?Bet you the rules and I hit the ground running Didn't make sense not to live for fun. Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.
Greg Camp
#52. 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
#53. We are the greatest computers in this world, but now we've created the smart phone which is smarter than us now, but we're still making dumb decisions. We have given our creations more power than we have, and that to me is dumb.
Bootsy Collins
#54. I hate to say this, but at the time, (late 70's) it was like the smart people liked punk and the dumb people liked Journey.
Howie Klein
#55. Duck Dynasty viewers think they're the experts on hunting, but actually they're the hunted ones, just another dumb demographic to be captured, laughed at and force-fed commercials for Geico and Home Depot by the Smart People in New York and L.A.
Matt Taibbi
#56. The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.
Clayton M Christensen
#57. I was wrong, you were right. I'm dumb, you're smart. I'm ugly, and you're a stone-cold fox.
Toooldforthis
#58. It's a lot easier to tell someone is drunker than you than it is to tell if they're soberer. The same is true of dumb and smart.
Richard Cahill
#59. You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.
Judy Holliday
#60. You got a man? That's somethin we will talk about.
He's smart enough to have ya, but dumb enough to let ya out.
LL Cool J
#61. Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.
Bruce Paltrow
#62. These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?
Rebecca McNutt
#63. Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
Louise Brooks
#64. Wine is not a magic serum of truth. It just silences that smart little voice in your head which advises against saying some dumb shit.
David Alejandro Fearnhead
#66. I liked to think I was a smart woman. My vagina, on the other hand, was the equivalent of a dumb blonde. And that blonde wanted what she wanted.
L. H. Cosway
#67. John McCain, who once called Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson 'forces of evil', has now come out for teaching intelligent design. That is sad, when smart people have to pretend to be so dumb to get elected.
Bill Maher
#68. Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
James Baldwin
#69. In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb.
George Gilder
#70. 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
#71. The trick to being smart is knowing when to play dumb.
V. Alexander
#72. Because being a smart-ass is always preferable to being a dumb-ass.
Arlaina Tibensky
#73. They don't understand that I'm just choosing to be dumb. I'm not dumb. I'm just choosing not to be smart at the moment, but if I put in effort, then I could be really smart, but I choose not to.
Jonah
#74. The way I've always governed my life as far as fiscal policy goes is I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb about it, so I surround myself with smart people in much the same way a hole surrounds itself with a doughnut. I just pay things off. That's all I do.
Dennis Miller
#75. You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
Erica Jong
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. Someone told me to dumb my poetry down, but I told them I can't because I don't have a smart phone.
Delano Johnson
#79. Do a lot of questions mean you are really smart or really dumb?
Allan Dare Pearce
#80. If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you.
(Isaac Jaffe, Sports Night)
Aaron Sorkin
#81. Sometimes along the way in my life I don't want a smart woman right now, I want a dumb woman. But then you think, 'That doesn't work, now I want a smart woman.' Then you get a smart woman and you go, 'No, that doesn't work.' So it's just killing me right now.
Gerard Butler
#82. When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.
Aristotle.
#83. I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.
Robert Lopez
#84. Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
Karl Rove
#85. Smart is knowing if you're dumb. Knowing when to shut up and to listen to people that are smarter than you.
Chris Rock
#86. We insult her everyday on TV
And wonder why she has no guts or confidence
When she's young we kill her will to be free
While telling her not to be so smart we put her down for being so dumb
John Lennon
#87. I've produced things myself, I was like telling the producers how to do the show. They really didn't appreciate that, they just wanted a dumb rocker on the show and they got some guy telling them how to do their job. So being too smart can get in the way.
Dee Snider
#88. 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
