Stupid Wisdom Quotes

#1. A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn't help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#2. Wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.

Tim Bray

#3. I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

John Updike

#4. Do be stupid,it's genius.

Jtjt Vzktrhlah

#5. 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

#6. The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?

Idries Shah

#7. He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

Johann Ludwig Tieck

#8. -I was young! I made a mistake, okay! Haven't you ever made a mistake?
-I'm old! Of course I've made mistakes, you stupid little shit!

Drea Damara

#9. One should guard against believing the great masses to be more stupid than they actually are.

Adolf Hitler

#10. The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Thomas Szasz

#11. Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid person.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#12. I felt so stupid and young, and at the same time something was cracking open inside me, or maybe it was the world was cracking open to show me something really important underneath. I knew I was only seeing a tiny bit of it, but it was bigger than anything I'd ever seen or felt before.

Ruth Ozeki

#13. People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

Craig Ferguson

#14. Don't ruin the moment by saying something stupid. There's elegance in things left unsaid.

Kurtis J. Wiebe

#15. Violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easier to use your hands to strike a blow then to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to a problem.

Anne Holm

#16. God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives 'declining'.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#17. Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.

Coco Chanel

#18. Knowledge doesn't exist in matters of the heart.

Willowy Whisper

#19. Living in a stupid country is living in a marsh! You are surrounded by the reptiles and the alligators! Refusing hell is the best path to eliminate the hell!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and customs that already had become old and venerable with them; and were new only to a few stupid Englishmen a hundred and fifty years behind the times.

Edward Pearson Pressey

#21. Wisdom is simple but profound.
Folly, even when complex, is stupid.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#22. Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#23. God in his infinite wisdom
Did not make me very wise-
So when my actions are stupid
They hardly take God by surprise.

Langston Hughes

#24. 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

#25. I'm actually listening to Turner's advice. I know it sounds stupid as hell, but sometimes, if you dig through his words, there are little nuggets of pure idiot wisdom, the sweetest kind there is.

C.M. Stunich

#26. Elegance loses its power in the presence of the properly stupid ...

Zoe Heller

#27. I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

Lois Lowry

#28. Calling the cat stupid never made the mice wise.

Marty Rubin

#29. 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

#30. Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.

Auliq Ice

#31. 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

#32. Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#33. Songs are just novels that get to the point quicker. Though I don't imagine that Ke$ha's book would be clean YA...

Inda Herwood

#34. 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

#35. Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

Maggie Stiefvater

#36. Don't let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chance. The third time means you're stupid.

C. JoyBell C.

#37. The award for excessive success is eternal doubt and eventual failure."
"So what, it's stupid to even try?"
"No. It's unwise to hope."
- Something Like Stardust

Genevieve Ross

#38. A little stupid is like a little forest fire. If you happen upon some stupid, please stomp it out before it spreads.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#39. She thought: When we are two, they do not notice us. They think us a match. What wisdom does a mob have? It is a hydra, an organism, stupid or dangerous in much of its behaviour, but could it have, in spite of this, a proper judgement about which of its component parts fit best together?

Peter Carey

#40. Age cannot determine the power of wisdom and stupid humans as we all are, think; more older the better wisdom.

Santosh Kalwar

#41. We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#42. 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,

#43. Nothing is wrong in being stupid however being smart and insists that you are is the biggest stupidiy one can fall into.

Hisham Fawzi

#44. demands the utmost in wisdom, in attack, in endurance. Violence is simple and easy, it is the sword of the stupid and dull-witted, and it always leaves chaos. To carry on a positive revolution without violence - ah, that is a challenge to intelligence!

Pearl S. Buck