Stupid Quotes

“Only idiots are confident. It requires a great amount of wisdom and knowledge to be confused.”
― Abhishek Leela Pandey

“The sum total of stupid people is somewhere around the population of the planet. Plus one.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“I told them all in brief what had happened, with Meg occasionally adding helpful comments like, "He was stupid," and, "He was more stupid," and "He did good; then he got stupid again.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tyrant’s Tomb

“Questions are never foolish. Stupider are those who never ask anything.”
― Tamuna Tsertsvadze, Galaxy Pirates

“There’s always that one white boy who says stupid shit in the name of making his friends laugh. You can usually find them trolling on Twitter. We just spotted one in the wild.”
― Angie Thomas, On the Come Up

“When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful & difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid.”
― Philippe Geluck

“Some people’s immaturity is intensified by their stupidity.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some children are a bitch or an asshole in the making.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is doubly unfortunate to be ignorant or stupid … and confident.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I'm tired of being told it's elitist to call stupid behavior stupid. Remember when you were just a tot and thought it might be a good idea to stick your wee-wee in the electrical socket? Hopefully, you hade a mom who kicked you in the behind and called you stupid. There are times when mincing words and pleasant euphemisms simply don't cut it. Sometimes, you need to call stupid by its given name.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle, Horse Latitudes

“Stupidity is intensified by things such as arrogance and confidence.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To be ashamed of being poor, you need, not only poverty, but also stupidity.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Education almost always leaves stupidity intact.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Education is guaranteed to mitigate ignorance, not to eradicate stupidity.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some things do not make sense, not in themselves, but to some people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Those who take initiative at work, do so not because they are stupid but because they understand the concept of responsibility.”
― Harmon Okinyo

“If it were considered smart, it would be done already.”
― Richie Norton

“The greatest innovations and creativity are quickly labeled “stupid” and rarely have the opportunity to come into conventional (and profit­able) fruition. Be creative anyway. Stupid is the New Smart.”
― Richie Norton

“Sometimes a fool says something wise without the intention to do that, and the awareness of having done that.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Wisdom gets half of its value from its being useful, and the other half from the being of at least one fool.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You had to be fundamentally stupid, I sometimes thought, to become the sort of academic specialist that hiring committees liked. You had to be thick somehow. You had to block out all the other things in the world to focus on one narrow, particular thing.”
― Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country

“We sometimes pretend to agree with a statement, as an attempt to hide the fact that we are not smart enough to understand it.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Live to start. Start to live.

Don’t Wait. Start Stuff.
People are innately passionate about certain unique aspects of life. You are innately passionate about certain unique aspects of life. And people are blessed with bouts of clear and concise intuition that drive them toward distinct goals and aspirations within their jobs and their lives as a whole.(You are not excluded from this group.)

But people disregard these inspired thoughts, these high-potential opportunities, as “just another stupid idea.”

Why?

Perhaps they are concerned about a lack of support (perceived or otherwise) from others, or maybe they are afraid of what others will think of them if they fail. Whatever the reason, they convince themselves:

“This would be a great idea for someone who has more free time.”

“This would be a great idea for someone with a higher level of education.”

“This would be a great idea for someone who has more money.”

“Everybody thinks this idea is crazy. They must be right.”

No matter the justification, the response is the same. These inspired thoughts, these high-potential ideas, are stuffed deep into the drawer labeled “stupid,” and they’re never heard from again . . . or the waiting game begins.

People wait.
They wait for that elusive day when they’ll finally have enough time (guess what? — you never will), enough education (there is always more to know), enough money (no matter how much you make, someone will always have more). They wait until the children are grown (news flash: just because they’re grown, it doesn’t mean you’re rid of them) or until things settle down at work (they never will).

People wait until . . . until . . . until . . . They wait, and they wait, and they wait, until that fateful day when they wake up and realize that while they were sitting around, paying dues, earning their keep, waiting for that elusive “perfect time,” their entire life has passed them by.”
― Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret

“Some people think they alone have a brain and you have a mango seed.”
― Karen Perkins-Dara

“Pretending to be wise is way more difficult than pretending not to be a fool.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some people are wise only when they are in public.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“As if their not being smart were not unfortunate enough, most people think they are smart.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It was a mistake, that’s all. A stupid, stupid mistake. We all make them–it doesn’t matter if it’s a calculated risk or a split-second decision, but sometimes we’re only one step away from disaster.”
― Sibel hodge, Into the Darkness

“Any smiling countenance before a corpse is either stupid or suspicious; countenance speaks louder than words.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“I'm an extrovert, I'll talk to anyone and anything...that is what you said that word meant, right?”
― Sana Sahul Hameed, Carter’s Kids & the Lovesick Murderer