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May you find great value in these Stupid quotes and sayings.
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
Related topics: Wisdom
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid;
if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.
- Tony Rothman
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein
Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Valery
Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
Stupid is as stupid does.
- the movie Forrest Gump (1994)
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
Think of how stupid the average person is,
and realize half of them are stupider than that.
- George Carlin
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
- the movie National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
People are stupid;
given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything.
Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie
because they want to believe it's true,
or because they are afraid it might be true.
- Terry Goodkind
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Stupidity is also a gift of God,
but one mustn't misuse it.
- Pope John Paul II
The difference between stupidity and genius
is that genius has its limits.
- Albert Einstein
Two things are infinite:
the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein
Genius may have its limitations,
but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can,
only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to say.
There is nothing to think.
There is nothing to feel.
The River of Life just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the world there is nothing more
submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong,
nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu
Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
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