Top 100 More Stupid Than Quotes
#1. I am against censorship. I don't think there is anything more stupid than censorship.
Nelson Algren
#2. What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
Giordano Bruno
#3. A lot of diplomacy lies in appearing to be a lot more stupid than you are.
Terry Pratchett
#4. Lawyers make nothing but confusion ... A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.
Thomas Bernhard
#5. Dreams so often become nightmares. Family can so easily become foes. And people are always more stupid than you give them credit for.
Mike A. Lancaster
#6. It's a dog eat dog world. But only if the second dog is more stupid than the first.
Washington Irving
#7. I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid.
Kami Garcia
#8. Because this absolutely insane - the craziest thing I'd ever done. Worse than giving a one-star review, scarier than asking for an interview with an author I'd give my firstborn to eat lunch with, more stupid than kissing Daemon.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#9. We should have known much more than our ancestors.
But if we learn less, we're much more stupid than them.
Toba Beta
#10. What I like are films that take me seriously, that don't treat me as more stupid than I am.
Michael Haneke
#11. Nothing makes you feel more stupid than finding out you were wrong when you thought you were loved.
A. L. Kennedy
#12. The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
Freya Stark
#13. Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident.
Dick Armey
#14. Could anything be more stupid than to praise a person for something that is not his? Or more crazy than admiring things which in a single moment can be transferred to another?
Seneca.
#15. Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
Jean Giraudoux
#16. A couple of taxi drivers have asked me if we can survive financially as an independent nation. I say, how come we are more stupid than Denmark or Finland or Sweden? They've all got the same amount of people. Are we all going to down tools? Is everybody in Scotland going to stop working?
Eddi Reader
#17. It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
Jerome K. Jerome
#18. Men never sound more stupid than when they're telling you they're a very complex personality.
Clive James
#19. One should guard against believing the great masses to be more stupid than they actually are.
Adolf Hitler
#20. One always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.
George Eliot
#21. Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
Bertrand Russell
#22. A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
P. J. O'Rourke
#23. Nothing could be more stupid than for the communications commission to give to people who handle the means of broadcasting the inventing of what to broadcast, and then, disturbed at the poor quality, to worry about censorship.
Paul Goodman
#24. Don't do anything stupid, Jake!"
I laugh to myself. Stupid? I've fallen in fucking love. I couldn't be any more stupid than that.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#25. I'm out to change people's attitudes about them. Wolves are a whole lot more than just predators who feast on a rancher's herd. They're smart and clever and loyal and courageours, and sometimes they do really stupid, silly things, just like people.
R.C. Ryan
#26. More times than I can remember I look around and I ask why the hole I'm in looks so strangely familiar. Probably because it looks a whole lot like all the other ones I dug before I got around to digging this one.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#27. All of a sudden Yutaka realized he had created a cloud of dust all around him. Oh no! No! This sucks. This blows more than your mama! Hey, now's not the time to come up with stupid jokes!
Koushun Takami
#28. Anya, the minor goddess of Anarchy? A woman who had more balls than most men - because she'd cut them off the guys stupid enough to get in her way and kept them as souvenirs.
Gena Showalter
#29. It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.
W. H. Auden
#30. I will never be a stupid girl ... and neither should you. Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before ... it's also much easier
and much more fun. A good education is one of the greatest gifts you could ever give yourself.
Pink
#31. All in all I'd rather have been a judge than a miner. And what's more, being a miner, as soon as you are too old and tired and sick and stupid to do the job properly, you have to go. Well, the very opposite applies with judges. *
Peter Cook
#32. You know you are a human when a beautiful image appearing on television/computer/smartphone/tab screen appears more alive than a living being.
Basically, we are stupid.
Saurabh Sharma
#33. You really are pretty stupid sometimes, you know that? I think you must be more man than demon." With that, she stormed off. Sam sat where he was, feeling bewildered. "Did I say something wrong?
Phillip W. Simpson
#34. You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be as imperfect as you please and still be a good person. Good people are hard to find nowadays. And they're a lot more fun than perfect people any day of the week.
Stephen Manes
#35. If we deny climate change and don't care about environmental degradation; we are no more than those people who are willing to be stupid because someone else was stupid in the past.
M.F. Moonzajer
#36. I tried to sneak in without him seeing me. It was a stupid move. He was a cat, he had more senses in one of his whiskers than I had in my entire body. No sooner had I opened the door to the building than he was there squeezing his way in.
James Bowen
#37. Sometimes when you live with one man for more than half your life, you stop really seeing him. Not stop loving him. That center-of-my-heart kind of love doesn't go away. But really paying attention gets submerged in the stupid details of day to day life.
Kaje Harper
#38. He's just a big stupid man to you, but I tell you there's more good in him than in may other people.
Arthur Miller
#39. Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now.
William Glasser
#40. Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Willa Cather
#41. 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
#42. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous, rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc., etc.
Anne Frank
#43. My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it.
Adam Mansbach
#44. I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?
Albert Camus
#45. I ignore people who need me and latch on to people who don't. I dive into every other world except my own just because I want something more glamorous than my real life. I do destructive shit so a stupid hypocritical fish will like me.
I fall for fish instead of girls.
Hannah Moskowitz
#46. I think what you're groping for is that people need more than to feel scolded, more than to be made to feel stupid and guilty. They need more than a vision of doom. They need a vision of the world and of themselves that inspires them.
Daniel Quinn
#47. An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
Adam Smith
#48. I respect you more than anyone. But right now I'm wondering what bothers you more, that I made a stupid decision or that I didn't make your decision.
Veronica Roth
#49. Democracy is when two stupid has more rights than clever one.
Myself
#50. We sink too easily into stupid and overfed sensuality, our bodies thickening even more quickly than our minds.
Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher
#51. Multitasking Makes You Stupid. Doing more than one thing at a time makes you slower and worse at both tasks. Don't do it. If you think this doesn't apply to you, you're wrong - it does.
Jeff Sutherland
#52. He looked as pained as I felt at that moment, and I figured we were dancing around something way more dangerous than the roof of my apartment building. If I didn't change the focus, one of us was bound to do something stupid, and soon.
Probably me.
T. Torrest
#53. Cats never weep, she told herself, no more than wolves. It's just a stupid dream.
George R R Martin
#54. Experience has taught me that the Shepherd is far more willing to show His sheep the path than the sheep are to follow. He is endlessly merciful, patient, tender, and loving. If we, His stupid and wayward sheep, really want to be led, we will without fail be led. Of that I am sure.
Elisabeth Elliot
#55. I paint stupid things; that's what I do. I can't think of anything more boring than a really beautiful thing. You have to mess it up. There has to be something a little kinky to keep their attention.
Billy Al Bengston
#56. I think vacations are mostly completely stupid. Going to have coffee with a friend, you're probably going to have more fun than if you go to Aruba.
Jerry Seinfeld
#57. The entire evolutionary record on our planet, particularly the record contained in fossil endocasts, illustrates a progressive tendency toward intelligence. There is nothing mysterious about this:
smart organisms by and large survive better and leave more offspring than stupid ones.
Carl Sagan
#58. You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents batty. It has to be compact. Nobody thinks about the parents when they write these stupid books. I could write longer children's books, but it would actually be bad if I did.
Michael Ian Black
#59. People feel deep anxiety finding out that someone they thought was stupid is actually more intelligent than they are.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#60. An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.
Carl Sagan
#61. A stupid friend can hurt you more than a smart enemy.
Erol Ozan
#62. 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
#63. I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
Eartha Kitt
#64. She'd been a silly girl who'd dreamed of love, and a stupid girl who'd declared love a fraud; but she'd never imagined that when she found it,it would be richer, more powerful than dreams, and the impossibility of keeping it more painful than the worst betrayal.
Meljean Brook
#65. Listen! Say less rather than more. If you want to be smart, play stupid!
Helena Rubinstein
#66. I'm more lopsided than a one legged badger!" Graypaw stopped his careful stalking to wander comically across the clearing "I will have to settle for hunting stupid mice I shall just wander up to them, and sit on them until they surrender!
Erin Hunter
#67. Eugenia never wears modish gowns. She says there are more important things to think of than one's dresses.'
'What a stupid thing to say!' remarked Sophy. 'Naturally there are, but not, I hold, when one is dressing for dinner.
Georgette Heyer
#68. An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be.
Michael Leunig
#69. It's just science fiction so it's allowed to be silly, and childish, and stupid. It's just science fiction, so it doesn't have to make sense. It's just science fiction, so you must ask nothing more of it than loud noises and flashing lights.
Isaac Asimov
#70. Anyone who is known as the Mysterious Marquis ought to have far more interesting reasons for his behavior than a stupid dispute with Sir Hilary.
Patricia C. Wrede
#71. The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
Alain De Botton
#72. Everybody does stupid things in life. Some of us more than others. You think you're going to get away with it. Or one or both of you just stop thinking. But it happens. And when it does, you can keep drinking it like poison, or you can put it behind you and go make the most of the rest of your life.
Claire Cook
#73. I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that.
Stevie Nicks
#74. Every minute was more exciting than the next.
Linda Evans
#75. ...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
#76. It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable; this is a common fault in those who think they have more intelligence than the crowd.
Michel De Montaigne
#77. I never give anyone the benefit of the doubt when it comes to stupidity. People do very, very stupid things, and smart people more than most.
Daniel Polansky
#78. I feared Sarah was one of those women who instead of laughing said, "That's funny," or instead of smiling said, "That's interesting," or instead of saying, "You are a stupid blithering idiot," said, "Well I think it's a little more complicated than that.
Lorrie Moore
#79. If you feel ignorant and stupid, then find a way to learn. don't curse those who calling you ignorant and stupid. find ways to prove them wrong. that, is satisfaction. much more satisfying than cursing them all the way to hell and back
Hlovate
#80. To recap: it is possible to put decent information into a Government Machine, have ordinary, good people running the thing, and a reasonable system in place, and still get utter idiocy out of the dispenser?"
"More than possible. Likely.
Nick Harkaway
#81. To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy
Raquel Cepeda
#83. A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.
Robert Kiyosaki
#84. If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy. It's not so bad it's good. It's so bad it's nothing else but bad.
Roger Ebert
#85. It's too easy to be stupid, and too easy to wake up in the morning with the feeling you said something that had more to do with want and despair than need.
Peter Benson
#86. Women have more energy, for a greater number of years, than men. Men, as they age, become either more wise or more stupid.
Sandro Veronesi
#87. Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be.
John Smith
#88. You're unpredictable and dangerous and protect those you love fiercely. You should be proud. To me you're more than a knight in some stupid shiny armour. You're the monster who no one can tame but the woman he loves. - Tess Snow
Pepper Winters
#89. The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it." - Charles Spurgeon "We are more concerned about looking stupid (fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord)." - Edward T. Welch
Randy Alcorn
#90. I think she cared more for that bloody dog than for me, for us. And maybe that's not so stupid, looking back ... maybe it is easier living on your own looking after some stupid mutt than sharing your life with other actual human beings.
Mark Haddon
#91. I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid wanting to be better than the others in the same ring, shallow, pointless.
Jackie Kay
#92. No two nations differ more from each other than the Russians and Finlanders. The former are as active, acute and sensible, as the latter are slow, heavy and stupid.
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
#93. Our gays are more macho than their straights.
Ann Coulter
#94. Because you have only known me for like fourteen seconds and seven of those were us making out and you still know more about me than all of my friends in this stupid place.
Maggie Stiefvater
#95. I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
A.S. Byatt
#96. What?s wrong about eating cows? What do you think god made them for? Their big, their stupid, their delicious. You want more reasons? I never met an animal more prepared to die than a cow. Next time you go to the farm look at a cow in the eyes, it is begging you for a bullet.
Paul Rodriguez
#97. We hurt ourselves much more than anyone can hurt us just by believing the stupid thoughts we get sometimes.
Charles F. Glassman
#98. So Haymitch, what do you think of the games have one hundred percent more competitors than usual?" asks Caesar.
Haymitch shrugs. "I don't see that it makes that much difference. They'll still be one hundred percent as stupid as usual, so I figure my odds will be roughly the same.
Suzanne Collins
#99. Jaime, you must be half-dead"
He laughed tiredly, holding me close with one large warm hand on the small of my back.
"A lot more than half, Sassenach. I'm knackered, and my cock's the only thing too stupid to know it. I canna lie wi' ye without wanting you, but wanting's all I'm like to do.
Diana Gabaldon
#100. It's all a matter of perspective. Here's mine: I've been called a lot of things, but what I really am is a survivor - and while there are more than a few stupid Sirens, there are zero stupid survivors.
Kami Garcia