Stupid Quotes

“The world of conspiracy theories is one where stupid people dismiss the expertise of highly qualified people, and attribute to these experts a wicked desire to lie to and gull the masses. In other words, they portray experts as sinister enemies of the people. Conspiracy theories reflect the increasingly prevalent notion that the average, uneducated person is always right – can always see the real truth of a situation – while the educated experts are always wrong because they are deliberately lying to the people to further a conspiracy by the elite against the people. It is increasingly being perceived as a “sin”, a crime, to be smart, to be an expert. Average people do not like smart people, do not trust them, and are happy to regard them as nefarious conspirators. They are constructing a fantasy world where the idiot is always right and honest, and anyone who opposes the idiot always wrong and dishonest. A global Confederacy of Dunces is being established, whose cretinous values are transmitted by bizarre memes that crisscross the internet at a dizzying speed, and which are always accepted uncritically as the finest nuggets of truth. Woe betide anyone who challenges the Confederacy. They will be immediately trolled.”
― Joe Dixon, Dumbocalypse Now: The First Dunning-Kruger President

“What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”
― Billy Madison (movie)

“Ignorance doesn’t make a person stupid, aversion to learning and rampant self-absorption do.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“An eternity at Prince Rhen's side, surviving his monster, surviving Lilith, surviving as a guardsman, and I'm going to die in the leaves beside a campfire because I was stupid .”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Heart So Fierce and Broken

“He makes me feel stupid and it’s hard to sleep knowing so little about everything”
― Paige Lewis, Space Struck

“99.99% of fools deny their foolishness. The rest underestimate it.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You have to stop the Q-Tip when there is resistance”
― Chandler Bing, FRIENDS

“To say that we don’t know is not necessarily a sign of stupidity. Rather, it is often an indication of wisdom.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A billion foolish people do not form even a single wise person.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Men of very great capacity, will as a rule, find the company of very stupid people preferable to that of the common run; for the same reason that the tyrant and the mob, the grandfather and the grandchildren, are natural allies.”
― arthur schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

“The ability to utter wise words is not exclusive to the wise.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms

“She was always clever, but so terribly stupid”
― Krystalle Bianca, Perfectly Fractured (The Imperfect, #1).

“Be careful that the decisions that you ‘make’ are not forging the chains that you cannot ‘unmake’ because those are the chains that will eventually ‘unmake’ you.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A huge part of culture is the painting of a particular degree or kind of foolishness as wisdom, by at least the vast majority of a particular group of fools … or mostly fools.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Never try to convince anyone to like you, people will take you on grant, instead be good, be kind, be honest, and the main be a kinda stupid, it will work, I sure.”
― Santosh Kumar (San)

“Freedom is not permission to be stupid, for the exercise of ‘stupid’ as a ‘right’ is certain to destroy the very freedom that stupidly used to be stupid. And that’s about as stupid as stupid gets.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Only children and fools expect wisdom from each and every old person.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, F for Philosopher: A Collection of Funny Yet Profound Aphorisms

“Yet not matter how much we recycle, believe in our Priuses, and abide by local laws, we see that our beauty is being destroyed, crushed by greed and cruel stupidity.”
― Anne Lamott, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope

“Being patient with a fool requires one not to be one.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We are a stubborn people at times, having collided with greatness, yet finding ourselves attempting to revive all the dead things that had gratefully and mercifully perished in the colliding.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“You know, ‘ladies’ is old fashioned, Mr. Smith. I like to use ‘womyn’, spelled ‘W-O-M-Y-N’, so I don’t have to include the word ‘man’”. I smile, and a few of the other girls clap.”
― Renée Watson, Watch Us Rise

“And I keep telling Stefan I’m not stupid”
― Johanna Lindsey, Once a Princess

“I didn't want you thinking that I was stupid and nervy. Nervy more than stupid. Stupid can be vindicated by a turn of phrase, by a dazzling rationale, a profound observation, or a smart quip -- not nervy -- that's permanent damage in front of a woman.
Marc in Red is Her Colour”
― Chitrangada Mukherjee, Red is Her Colour: Un-Love Series Book 1

“Humans are communicative beings—and for most of them, it’s their downfall. (Victor)”
― G. Gold, How Dare You - Deadly December

“Armut wird im Grunde durch einen Mangel and Geld verursacht", erklärt der Ökonom Joseph Hanlon. "Sie hat nichts mit Dummheit zu tun. Ein Mensch, der keine Haare auf dem Kopf hat, kann sich nicht am eigenen Schopf aus dem Sumpf ziehen.”
― Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

“I knew I was being stupid, but I couldn’t help it. Once bitten, twice shy, and all that. I’d been bitten about a dozen times and had about two dozen shynesses left to work through because of it.”
― Lily Seabrooke, The Simple Answer

“I think two stupid people make a better couple.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“Call me stupid but living without WhatsApp is not easy. If you think you're not addicted to it, take one-week challenge and delete the app from your phone.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“We sometimes unknowingly reveal that we are stupid by wondering aloud why, if they are really wise or intelligent, is someone not rich or famous.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The need for a solution suggests the existence of a problem. The existence of a problem suggests the presence of a mistake. And a mistake suggests the existence of a less than wise choice that was probably mine.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough