Quotes About Stupider

#1. I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, and that's my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten stupider and stupider.

Joss Whedon

#2. I don't try to overintellectua lize my concepts of people. In fact, the ideas I have, if you talk about them, they seem extremely corny and it's only in their execution that people can enjoy them ... It's something I've learned to trust: The stupider it is, the better it looks.

Annie Leibovitz

#3. The problem with trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you so very often succeed.

C.S. Lewis

#4. Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Blaise Pascal

#5. There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.

Richard Morris

#6. How am I feeling? I'm sort of in the mood to feel righteously indignant but I don't have anything worth getting indignant about. I guess I'm mad that people aren't stupider when I need them to be.

Jenny Lawson

#7. True beauty is to be found in natural forms. The more we magnify, and the closer we examine, the works of Artifice, the grosser and stupider they seem. But if we magnify the natural world it only becomes more intricate and excellent.

Neal Stephenson

#8. Well, he certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person." "Dear Lizzy!

Jane Austen

#9. An addict never stops growing. Stupider.

William S. Burroughs

#10. He said, "Al, that's the stupidest question you've ever asked in your life," but I don't reckon it was. I bet I ask way stupider questions that that every day.

J.L. Merrow

#11. Don't be stupider than you need to be, I remind myself. Remember Calease? The last glowing girl you talked to tried to kill you.

Erica Cameron

#12. Falderson," he said quietly to Bahzell in passable Navahkan, "is as stupid as the day is long." He craned his neck to gaze up at the hradani and shook his head. "In fact, he's even stupider than I thought. You, sir, are the biggest damned hradani-no offense-I think I've ever seen.

David Weber

#13. Finally I am becoming stupider no more.

Paul Erdos

#14. I was as foolish as I had ever been, no, even stupider, for the gullibility of a boy is fatuousness in a man.

Robin Hobb

#15. Luz's father had had it; it was how he kept himself atop everyone around him. He believed harder in stupider things, and there was somehow authority in this.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#16. If I know this, I ought to be able to escape the stupider kinds of illusion. The absolute nature of things is independent of my senses (which are all I have to perceive with), and what I perceive is an image of my own psyche.

Robertson Davies

#17. On September 11th, America changed. Yes. It got much stupider.

David Hare

#18. Boys never seemed stupider than when they were surprised by the bad behavior of other men.

Rebecca Scherm

#19. This is what happens when a boy becomes a man. You get stupider.

James McBride

#20. It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality.

Matt Taibbi

#21. Do stupid stuff and even stupider suff will happen to you.

Dan Gutman

#22. We have lunch at ten-forty-five, Colin said. A stupidly early lunch. At our school, the older you get, the stupider your lunch period.

Rebecca Stead

#23. Blitzen and Hearthstone collapsed at the bow. They started arguing with each other about which of them had taken the stupider risks, but they were so tired the debate deteriorated into a half-hearted poking contest, like a couple of second-graders.

Rick Riordan

#24. Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

C.S. Lewis

#25. We have to report this."

Kai sighed deeply in relief. "I was afraid you were going to say that we had to investigate it ourselves."

"Don't be ridiculous," Irene said briskly. "We may collect fiction, but we are not required to imitate the stupider parts of it.

Genevieve Cogman

#26. How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#27. Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

Mark Twain

#28. All the great unanswered questions of the world will be answered. Who are we? What are we here for? Where will we end up? And most important of all: Can mankind actually get any stupider?

Jasper Fforde

#29. In those days, most people read newspapers, whereas today, most people do not. What caused this change? One big factor, of course, is that people are a lot stupider than they used to be, although we here in the newspaper industry would never say so in print.

Dave Barry

#30. There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else
but persistent.

Raoul Bott

#31. We haven't ever known our past. Your kids are no stupider than their grandparents.

Sam Wineburg

#32. So ... Mason, Eddie, and Mia went to Spokane to hunt Strigoi?"
"Yes."
"Holy shit. Why didn't you go with them? Seems like something you'd do."
I resisted the urge to smack him. "Because I'm not insane! But I'm going to go get them before they do something even stupider.

Richelle Mead

#33. As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.

E. M. Forster

#34. Things inanimate have always been more difficult to change than things animate. Their souls are older and stupider and harder to persuade.

Neil Gaiman

#35. Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy.

Grover Norquist

#36. It's dishonourable to stay stupider than you need to be

Charlie Munger

#37. Harvard was a lovely assisted-living facility from which I'd emerged, like my classmates, stupider and more confident.

Avi Steinberg

#38. Kingsley turned his attention back to her.
"Why do you have your clothes on?"
"Was I supposed to take them off?"
"I've never heard a stupider question in my life.

Tiffany Reisz

#39. 'Stupidity' defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we've never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we've never felt stupider. We now collectively inhabit a state of stupidity.

Douglas Coupland

#40. I get dumber as the day goes along. Every second of the day that goes along, I get stupider.

John Waters

#41. In music, which was my world before, you've got thousands and thousands of years of great ideas that have already been thought of. But the internet is basically 20 years old. So you can be way stupider and still have world-changing ideas.

Andrew Mason

#42. And they're right - what could be scarier, stupider, than
staying together? How else could you totally guarantee that you would always have reasons to be terrified?

Rob Sheffield

#43. he talked until their food arrived, littering his chat with references to 'ninety k' and 'a quarter of a mill', and every sentence was angled, like a mirror, to show him in the best possible light: his cleverness, his quick thinking, his besting of slower, stupider yet more senior colleagues...

Robert Galbraith

#44. It's not just that I'm stupid; it's that I'm just smart enough to know how stupid I am. I wish I weren't so stupid. Or that I were stupider.

John S. Hall

#45. It really takes an effort to appear stupider than you are.

Muriel Barbery

#46. get more stupider.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#47. This won't stop her from getting elected," Shane said. "Stupider people get elected all the time. It's America. We love the sleazy. And the crazy." "I would like to think better of us," Claire said, "but yeah. You're right.

Rachel Caine

#48. Well, I'm supposed to be crazy, right? And there isn't much I wouldn't do for you. The stupider the better.
- Adrian Ivashkov

Richelle Mead

#49. I entered Excessive Modesty Mode. Nothing is stupider and more ineffective than Excessive Modesty Mode. It is a mode in which you show that you're modest by arguing with someone who is trying to compliment you. Essentially, you are going out of your way to try to convince someone that you're a jerk.

Jesse Andrews

#50. I never met a man who wasn't stupider than me.

Andrea Dworkin

#51. Being rational is a moral Imperative. You should never be stupider than you need to be.

Charlie Munger

#52. I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am.

Ann Coulter

#53. Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider; girls go to college to get more knowledge.

James C. Dobson

#54. MEETING THE EYE
You'll probably find
that it suits your book
to be a bit cleverer
than you look.
Observe that the easiest
method by far
is to look a bit stupider
than you are.

Piet Hein

#55. People are stupider than anybody.

Tom Lehrer

#56. I love you."
"What?"
"I love you and I don't know why you don't love me back."
"Is that what you think? Then ya know what?
You're stupider than I am.

Carian Cole

#57. I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider.

Rufus Wainwright

#58. There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.

Bertolt Brecht

#59. I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

Bette Midler

#60. But then anytime you join in a mass movement you're going to find yourself standing alongside idiots. One reason people go to mass rallies is to become stupider and surer of themselves than they are when they're alone.

Tim Kreider

#61. You are all perfectly correct in your implications that we would be safer if we stayed home in our rooms ... But we would also be duller, stupider, and, finally, sadder. If you want to avoid danger, don't get born. Once you are born, make something of it!

Chris Raschka

#62. Go home, Butch. I'm not going to do anything stupid." [Vishous to Butch]
"Stupider, you mean."
"Semantics are for shit.

J.R. Ward

#63. The stupider the regime the more intelligent the people get and the more humorous.

Christopher Hitchens

#64. I have a theory that the Internet makes people stupider - and also FOX News makes people stupider.

Bill Maher

#65. Finally I'm becoming stupider no more.

Paul Erdos

#66. One of the subtlest means of deceiving, at least as long as possible, and of successfully representing oneself to be stupider than one really is - which in everyday life is often as desirable as an umbrella,- is called ENTHUSIASM, including what belongs to it, for instance, virtue.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#67. Democracy has at least one merit, namely that a Member of Parliament cannot be stupider than his constituents, for the more stupid he is, the more stupid they were to elect him.

Bertrand Russell

#68. Because I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you. I've often done it over contracts. And it's also a good thing to seem stupider than you are.

Agatha Christie

#69. The information paradox- that the more data we have, the stupider we become- has a social corollary, too: that the more frantically we connect, one to another, the more disconnected our relationships become.

Susan Maushart

#70. Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

George Carlin

#71. People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be ...

Robert Anton Wilson

#72. People are incredibly literal sometimes in how they view you. You have dark hair and pale skin? You must be brooding. The second you dye your hair blond and get a spray tan, people treat you as if you're a bit stupider and happier.

Anna Paquin

#73. I'm at my most productive before I even have my first cup of coffee. I only get slower and stupider as the day progresses.

Anthony Bourdain

#74. The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

Anton Chekhov

#75. He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

Jane Austen

#76. You really have to be careful with the clues you lay into the film - if they're too heavy-handed, or you've pandered to a slightly stupider audience, then you've spoiled it for the people who are even slightly smart.

Ben Wheatley

#77. If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still lack, to reach perfection; I see it the more clearly now that I live only among first-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks.

Frederic Chopin

#78. someone who lends his book is stupid, but one who returns it is stupider

Darmanto Jatman

#79. The more you say goodbye, the stupider you'll feel when we're blitzed as bats at the victory party.

Meg Merriet