Quotes tagged ‘stupidity’

(67 total)

“You're in trouble because of your own stupidity.”

“To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! I've known sheep that could outwit you. I've worn dresses with higher IQs… Now let me correct you on a couple of things, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not 'Every man for himself.' And the London Underground i…”

— Wanda, amazon.com

“We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction.”

— Orhan Pamuk, amazon.com

“People were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institution in the country did not help them widen their economic base.”

— Muhammad Yunus, amazon.com

“Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly.”

— Toni Morrison, amazon.com

“You think love is black and white. All women think that. And they’re wrong. Women are really intelligent except for when they’re being really stupid.”

— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com

“We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.”

— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com

“The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.”

— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com

“Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.”

— Jim Butcher, amazon.com

“I know all about audiences, they believe everything you say, except when you are telling the truth.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

“He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filt…”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

“Presently a serpent sought them out privately, and came to them walking upright, which was the way of serpents in those days. The serpent said the forbidden fruit would store their vacant minds with knowledge. So they ate it, which was quite natural, for man is so made that he eagerly wants to know;…”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

“More men go to church than want to.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

“Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at is worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

“Now there you have a sample of man’s ‘reasoning powers,’ as he calls them. He observes certain facts. For instance, that in all his life he never sees the day that he can satisfy one woman; also, that no woman ever sees the day that she can’t overwork, and defeat, and put out of commission any ten m…”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

“There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

— Jane Austen, amazon.com

“The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.”

— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com

“More of your conversation would infect my brain.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com