Stupider Than Sayings

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Robert Anton Wilson

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

George Carlin

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Bette Midler

#9. 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

#10. People are stupider than anybody.

Tom Lehrer

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

Ann Coulter

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

Charlie Munger

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

Andrea Dworkin

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

Muriel Barbery

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

Charlie Munger

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

C.S. Lewis

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

Richard Morris

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Rebecca Scherm

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

C.S. Lewis

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

Sam Wineburg

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

Grover Norquist

#27. 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

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

Neil Gaiman

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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