Top 92 Intelligent Stupid Quotes
#1. Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing ... after they've tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
R. Buckminster Fuller
#2. The ant is a collectively intelligent and individually stupid animal; man is the opposite.
Karl Von Frisch
#3. Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
Jack London
#4. An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Victor Hugo
#5. One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.
Claudine Guerin De Tencin
#6. The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.
Neal Stephenson
#7. When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.
Arsene Wenger
#8. It had a sort of a head on it, like a mushroom, and its color was reddish purple. It looked blunt and stupid, compared, say, to fingers and toes with their intelligent expressiveness, or even to an elbow or a knee.
Alice Munro
#10. I have certainly noticed that groups of clever and intelligent people are capable of really stupid ideas.
Terry Pratchett
#11. According to Tobias, it was more difficult to seduce a stupid woman than an intelligent one because stupid women could not understand innuendo or even connect cause with effect.
Margaret Atwood
#12. In choosing candidates for this challenging way of life, she emphasised intelligence and good judgment ("GOD PRESERVE US FROM STUPID NUNS !! )
. It was her conviction that intelligent people can better be aware of their faults and, at the same time, see the need to be guided.
St Teresa Of Avila
#13. Which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
Aldous Huxley
#14. If being stupid is the only way for an intelligent man to be happy, then let us hope that unhappiness be his choice!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#15. Though the stupid have great capacity to direct the world because they are plentiful, the clever has a much greater capacity to prevent the stupid from halting the progression of humanity because - though they are rare - they are tactical and intelligent!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
Socrates
#17. All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.
Action Bronson
#18. Educating yourself does not mean that you were stupid in the first place; it means that you are intelligent enough to know that there is plenty left to learn.
Melanie Joy
#19. They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.
Ozzy Osbourne
#20. Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid as well. I think that's something you might have to consider.
Douglas Adams
#21. I think that men has the most highly developed intelligence. I think men get so intelligent that they're stupid.
Don Van Vliet
#22. I am not going to give you a number for it because it's not my business to do intelligent work.
Donald Rumsfeld
#23. I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
Cormac McCarthy
#24. The group of stupid people collectively treats or makes an intelligent amongst them look like duffer and a fool living in a big network of enlightened minds even starts behaving sensibly in life.
Anuj
#25. I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as your most intelligent self. It is when you realize who you are and the extents of the good and the evils which you are capable of.
Criss Jami
#26. Ignorant have always the tendency to see the donkey as the noble horse, to see the pig as the lion! Ignore the judgements of the ignorant, because ignorant makes the ant elephant; he declares the stupid as the intelligent; he carries the silly on his shoulders!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#27. Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior. - Dee Hock
David Allen
#28. Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#30. When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.
Nawal El Saadawi
#31. However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
Nikolai Gogol
#32. The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.
Peter Ustinov
#33. Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.
K. Eric Drexler
#34. I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
Paris Hilton
#35. The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?
George Stephanopoulos
#36. ...it's really more intelligent to be able to simplify things than to complicate them. Even if some people think it makes you look stupid.
Eugenia Cheng
#37. It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
Charlie Munger
#38. Hollywood is not stupid, contrary to popular belief; it's really a lot of intelligent people trying to figure things out.
Peter Berg
#39. The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
Marjane Satrapi
#40. Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.
Xunzi
#41. The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.
Cyril Connolly
#42. 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
#43. This isn't a stupid horror movie, odd one. It's never too late to do the intelligent thing.
Dean Koontz
#44. The fact that someone is not particularly intelligent is no guide in these things. People may be stupid and extremely complicated just as they can be clever and incapable of deep feeling.
Julian Fellowes
#45. Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved.
Elizabeth Bishop
#46. The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
Charles Bukowski
#47. The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)
Jean-Yves Leloup
#48. Most people who spew hatred aren't very intelligent or motivated. They tend to be lazy, and if for some reason they are coaxed into picking up a pen, their messages are mostly incoherent and largely illiterate.
Damien Echols
#49. Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
John Dewey
#50. I like stupid questions," Rimmer said. "They allow one to feel intelligent for once.
David Lagercrantz
#51. How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Alexandre Dumas
#52. The most intelligent members of the animal kingdom are human beings; so are the most stupid
Agona Apell
#53. I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out.
Warren Beatty
#54. An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.
Paul Valery
#55. An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
Adam Smith
#56. Intelligent men think up ways to get themselves in tangles a stupid man would never imagine.
Elizabeth Moon
#57. The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
Andre Gide
#58. Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you're a nerd is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Linsey Lohan. Why is that?
John Green
#59. We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.
Geraldine Brooks
#60. By creating an intelligent thought, you open the road for many other intelligent thoughts! By producing a stupid thought, you open the path for many other stupid thoughts! Beware of your thoughts! Create pearl, and then pearls will increase! Create mud, and then mud will increase!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#61. 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.
Werner Herzog
#62. All, the intelligent and stupid, diligent and idle, have been swept along on a current of increased output that, in the usual case, owed nothing whatever to their efforts.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#63. In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.
Coco Chanel
#64. I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.
Blaise Pascal
#65. She isn't stupid. She's intelligent enough in a purely feminine way. Eighteenth-century France would have been a marvellous setting for her, or the old South if she hadn't made the mistake of being born a Negro.
Nella Larsen
#66. English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.
Cyril Connolly
#67. To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.
Edward Abbey
#68. People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.
Carl Sagan
#69. Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
Honore De Balzac
#70. Three was that the other two Cahills were stupid and slow and utterly incapable of an intelligent thought.
Clifford Riley
#71. Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself into anything, that only a fool can make anything he wants out of himself.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#72. 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
#73. There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
John Fowles
#74. IF YOU ACCEPT THE FACT THAT YOU ARE STUPID,IT MEANS YOU ARE INTELLIGENT.
Shaikh Mustafa
#75. Frame is a good enough piece of software that there are actually rewards to taking an intelligent and formal approach to your problem. But if you want to be stupid, you can think of Frame as a version of Microsoft Word with most of the bugs taken out.
Philip Greenspun
#76. I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.
Shakira
#77. I'm going to write a book about an intelligent woman who does stupid things when it comes to men. I'll call it, "My Memoirs.
N.M. Silber
#78. What we call debt is a hump on our backs; it is an awkward load that crushes one; and loads are carried only by stupid animals, by camels, mules, and donkeys; the back of an intelligent person is flat!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#79. There was a time, not so long ago, when the stupid and uneducated aspired to be thought intelligent and cultured people doing their best to feign stupidity.
Ernest Hemingway,
#80. Between a stupid fascist and an intelligent fascist, prefer the intelligent one, because there is always a chance to persuade the clever one about the mistakes of his actions! There is no such a chance for stupid and ignorant fascist!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#81. The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
#82. I have a habit of filling quiet moments with stupid chatter rather than intelligent vocal contributions to society.
Jessica Thompson
#83. other tales, the sailors reach a land of intelligent talking animals who find humans disgusting and rather stupid.
Robin Hobb
#84. The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
Denis Diderot
#85. Before, when I was ordered to consider him intelligent, I kept on trying to and I considered myself stupid for not seeing how intelligent he was; but the moment I said, "he's stupid," but said it in a whisper, everything became quite clear.
Leo Tolstoy
#86. The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent.
Theodor Adorno
#87. You think love is black and white. All women think that. And they're wrong. Women are really intelligent except for when they're being really stupid.
Liane Moriarty
#88. Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister.
Stephen King
#89. Why is being a nerd so bad?
saying " I noticed you're a nerd is like saying hey, I noticed you'd rather be intelligent that stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan
John Green
#90. People feel deep anxiety finding out that someone they thought was stupid is actually more intelligent than they are.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#91. When an intelligent person says a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing.
Marty Rubin
#92. The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
