Quotes with stupid

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  • Oscar Wilde The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jane Austen The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Thomas Szasz The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Thomas Szasz The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Ian McEwan The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn’t say much is that the teachers at school, especially those who don’t know you very well, are likely to think you’re rather stupid. Or, if not stupid, then dull. No one can see the amazing things that are going on in your head.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Oscar Wilde The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Jack Handey The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.
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  • Ezra Pound The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Umberto Eco There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • William Hazlitt There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Will Rogers There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Cass Elliot There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.
    Cass Elliot
    American singer and actress (1941 - 1974)
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  • Carre Otis Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.
    Carre Otis
    American model and actress (1968 - )
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  • Bill Bailey Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
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    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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