Top 100 Smart Stupid Quotes
#2. There's only really two things about a man that matter: what he wants, and what he'll do to get it. Everythin' else we pretend is important
whether you're tough, or good-lookin', smart, stupid, honorable, whatever
that's just details.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#3. 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
#4. When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.
Andy Stanley
#6. The "Powers That Be" are not smart enough to engineer Armageddon, but they may yet be stupid enough. If governments are involved in covering up the knowledge of aliens, then they are doing a much better job of it than they seem to do at anything else.
Stephen Hawking
#7. Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Samuel Goldwyn
#8. How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.
Steve Harvey
#9. People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they're too stupid and they've already taken over the world.
Pedro Domingos
#10. We are smart enough to realise that we are stupid, and stupid enough to make the problem of becoming smarter hard.
Anders Sandberg
#11. Start making smart decisions now to avoid paying for stupid ones later.
Sophia Amoruso
#12. Stupid presidents, smart presidents, white presidents, black presidents
doesn't work! What this country needs is a crazy Third World dictator. And Donald Trump has what it takes to be that. He's already got a plane with his name on it, solid gold buildings, a harem ...
Lewis Black
#13. You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough not to think about all the things that might go wrong.
Sarah Gilbert
#14. You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable ... it's your choice
Gordon B. Hinckley
#15. Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.
Anne Holm
#16. Everyone is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking that it's stupid.
Lynda Mullaly Hunt
#18. How come if people keep telling me I'm so smart, I keep doing such stupid things?
George Watsky
#19. I will always continue to make stupid action films but I think 'V For Vendetta' is a very smart film and I think that people will feel differently about things when they see it.
Joel Silver
#20. Some people might say it's not smart to be so insecure about what you wear. But that's not how I see it. The stupid woman is the one who thinks she doesn't need any help. What does a man know about things like that? a stupid woman thinks, and proceeds to make the wrong choice.
Herman Koch
#21. Scoring comes from being able to preserve what you've got and play your smart shots when you need to play them and not do stupid things and take advantage of things when have you them.
Jack Nicklaus
#23. The Pakistanis are straightforward and sometimes extremely stupid. The Indians are more devious, sometimes so smart that we fall for their line.
Richard M. Nixon
#24. Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#25. I have a dream like everyone elses in this universe may have and i always ask myself 'Am i strong enough to face my destiny? Smart enough to face my problems? Brave enough to face my fears? And stupid enough to risk my life?' If it would be 'No' then, 'Disapointed' but if 'Yes' then, 'So be it'.
Russ
#26. The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out of touch with life will not stand up under scrutiny. Sin is basically an act of moral folly, and the greater the folly the greater the fool.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#27. If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams
#28. Smart people learn from everything and everyone,
Average people from their experiences,
Stupid people already have all the answers.
Socrates
#29. I know how it works, Esther. I graduated from Harvard." "Book-smart, but life-stupid," said Esther.
Paullina Simons
#30. Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
Carl Sagan
#31. I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.
Taylor Swift
#32. Worship power-you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever ore power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart-you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out.
David Foster Wallace
#33. I've never been an idiot - I was a smart girl but I'd do stupid things like go around Asda and nick stuff because my friends told me to. I was a good girl as a teenager.
Amy Winehouse
#34. How is someone so smart so stupid? You can't make money if you always insult my customer. You got to be the worst hooker I ever had
Jason Brant
#35. Rosie crosses her arm. "That's one of those things you say to sound smart, right?" she says. "But, really, you're trying to make someone else feel stupid.
Gabrielle Zevin
#36. You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart."
"And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.
Tamora Pierce
#37. Why are stupid people so confident and why are smart people so shy? The effect of Dunning-Kruger.
Anna G.
#38. No, I'm not smart," he whispered against her ear, "but I was wise enough to fall in love with you and clever enough to convince you to marry me. I hope I'm not so stupid that I would ever let you go.
Sara Lindsey
#39. He could be so charming and irreverent and witty, and then-bam!-a switch flipped and he reverted right back to the cocky asshole everyone reported him to be.
Lauren Weisberger
#40. There are only stupid decisions waiting for me here. But I've never cared all that much for being smart.
Cora Carmack
#41. We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart than stupid.
Noam Chomsky
#42. 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
#43. In short, out-of-control emotions can make smart people stupid.
Daniel Goleman
#44. I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.
Marilyn Manson
#45. Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.
Don Winslow
#46. I just want to hear the true voices of women self-expressing - smart ones, stupid ones, ugly ones, beautiful ones, good ones, bad ones, fat ones, thin ones, all of it - until the profound silence that has resounded throughout history is filled with a healthy chorus coming from our side of the aisle.
Liz Phair
#47. A stupid friend can hurt you more than a smart enemy.
Erol Ozan
#48. But being smart was overrated. Being stupid and brave and curious? Now that's something stories are made of. Dimarion's
Traci Chee
#49. If you're going to be stupid, at least be smart about it. (Eric Brewster's mother)
Eric Brewster
#50. You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore.
I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk
Chuck Palahniuk
#51. The rich strutted around, assuming they'd be safe, so long as they stayed in the good parts of town. But Lila knew there were no good parts. Only smart parts and stupid parts, and she was quick enough to know which one to play.
V.E Schwab
#52. Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
Bill Keller
#53. Listen! Say less rather than more. If you want to be smart, play stupid!
Helena Rubinstein
#54. My motto is to keep it simple stupid, work smart not hard.
Joe Teti
#55. 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
#56. Really smart people don't want to say stupid things, and they really don't want to be a part of a PR-engineered interview. People really do want to be smart, and they want smart questions. So, if you ask smart questions, there's no way you can't do well.
Kara Swisher
#57. Every stupid thing in the world, decaffeinated coffee, alcohol free beer, makes perfect sense, not because you're any smarter, but because the smart part of your brain's on vacation.
Chuck Palahniuk
#58. I think," Nick snarled, "that the stupid bastard isn't smart enough to win a poker hand with a deck of marked cards.
Judith McNaught
#59. Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.
Mel Brooks
#60. Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.
Brian Celio
#62. The course made me think a bit, you know. That we're smart enough to get out of here. We're just too stupid to work out a way.
Cath Crowley
#63. Nothing is wrong in being stupid however being smart and insists that you are is the biggest stupidiy one can fall into.
Hisham Fawzi
#64. Yeah I am stupid, as a wiseman I don't think I am a clever, but as far I see stupid people count themselves as smart and clever.
Deyth Banger
#65. Stupidity is a relevant term and it is relevant to the owner of the stupid brain. Smartness is an irrelevant term and it is irrelevant to the owner of the smart brain because even the smart people can do and say stupid things.
Boris Zubry
#66. I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who were stupid. But I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart.
Rob Lowe
#67. Maybe I'm not the gloaming witches smart, but at least I'm not our stupid liffey hamburger mongrels
Thom Yorke
#68. They were just people. They were too smart and too stupid to be anything else.
Adam Rex
#69. Stop a minute and listen. I know I'm asking the impossible from you, but for once in your life, shut your mouth and open your ears."
"I'm not the one talking."
Kyrian snarled at him. "Don't get smart with me."
"You want me stupid?"
"Nick ...
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#70. The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.
Raul Ramos Y Sanchez
#72. I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever.
Andrea Bocelli
#73. Smart people have the brains, but stupid people have the balls
Ana Saez Gonzalez
#74. I know for an actual fact that the things I say or that my brothers say on the mic are valid for life. What we say, if you're smart you get it, if you're stupid, you learn about 3 years later.
RZA
#75. Two things make smart men stupid, beautiful women and sports
Colin Cowherd
#76. Being nice doesn't make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.
C.S. Lewis
#77. I never wanted to fall in love. Only stupid girls compromised themselves that way, and I was too smart to sell myself short.
Jessica Cutler
#78. It is a quote from Mihri Hatun, a lady poet who wrote many centuries ago. 'A talented women is better than a thousand untalented men, and a women of understanding is better than a thousand stupid men.
Karen Essex
#79. I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.
Doug Ose
#80. You want to be as smart as you can about being stupid.
Mel Brooks
#81. 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
#83. You're so stupid that you don't even realize how much I love you. You're so smart that you always know what to do to make me fall for you even more. What would I do to you?
Alesana Marie
#84. I'm so smart now. Everyone's always like 'take your top off'. Sorry, NO! They always want to get that money shot. I'm not stupid.
Paris Hilton
#85. Money makes people stupid. They don't have to work as hard as people who don't have money. That's why the smart people who do have money mostly use it for one thing ...
They use it to make sure the people without it don't get any more.
Charlie Huston
#86. Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.
Steve Carell
#87. Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.
Orson Scott Card
#88. I don't debate where there is no debate. I'm smart. You're stupid. Debate over.
J'son M. Lee
#89. 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
#91. Generally, I like to appear smart. I don't admit being stupid when there's any hope I'm not.
Michelle Sagara West
#92. Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid.
Robert Charles Wilson
#93. Stupid people go to college but"smart people own them" ...
Chetan Bhagat
#94. I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.
Bobby Vinton
#95. We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think.
Chuck Palahniuk
#96. Being a pioneer can be damn lonely, too early, no money, tough, endless, stupid," Samwer said. "And that healed us. Since then, we basically say, Fuck you. We don't care whether you think we are not smart enough to invent something.
Frank Sennett
#97. I was loved by a team of smart, shrewd, criminally-inclined vigilantes. But I was loved. If I denied that any longer, I was calling them all liars. And if I denied I was worthy of it, I was convincing myself they were delusional and stupid. I wasn't lying to myself anymore. Not about that.
C.D. Reiss
#98. When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.
Bruce Schneier
#99. When your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.
Mitch Albom
#100. I was smart enough to use pot without getting caught, and now I'm on the Supreme Court. If you were stupid enough to get caught, that's your problem. Your appeal is denied. This 40 year sentence just might teach you a lesson.
Clarence Thomas
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