An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

He saw no beauty in the sunshine sifting down through the green leaves, nor did the azure vault of the sky whisper as of old and hint of cosmic vastness and secrets trembling to disclosure. Life was intolerably dull and stupid, and its taste was bad in his mouth.

A business man who was also a biologist and a sociologist would know, approximately, the right thing to do for humanity. But, outside the realm of business, these men are stupid. They know only business. They do not know mankind nor society, and yet they set themselves up as arbiters of the fates of the hungry millions and all the other millions thrown in. History, some day, will have an excruciating laugh at their expense.” I was not surprised when I had my.

Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that you are used to heaping on yourself. Such self-bashing is never useful. If you indulge in it, your writing doesn’t stand a chance. So when your mind turns on you, turn it back, stamp it down, shut it up, and keep writing.

When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. We used to make these silly, stupid short films, which, looking back now, were probably horrible.

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that’s just the way it is.

Maybe I’m not the gloaming witches smart, but at least I’m not our stupid liffey hamburger mongrels

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that’s just the way it is

Maybe I’m not the gloaming witches smart, but at least I’m not our stupid liffey hamburger mongrels

Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.

I’m not saying my fans are stupid, but I once left a cabbage onstage next to a harmonica and nobody noticed for three hours

Stupid little boys should learn to use guns and not wave them around.

Hollywood usually doesn’t have strong woman in films like that, and it’s stupid, so for the most part they’re usually being directed and written by men.

When you’re young, hungry and stupid you’ll do whatever it takes.

Smashing things is the violent way stupid mortal monkeys solve their problems.

Besides, we weren’t made to battle villains, because there weren’t any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than another; all were flawed, all were equally doomed to suffering, mostly because they couldn’t see that they were all alike. Mortals might have been contemptible, true, but not evil entirely. They did enjoy killing one another and frequently came up with ingenious excuses for doing so on a grand scale-religions, economic theories, ethnic pride-but we couldn’t condemn them for it, as it was in their mortal natures and they were too stupid to know any better.

That stupid postmodern emphasis on image over content has slammed us right into a dramaturgy that willfully leaves the audience behind and then resents the fact that they don’t ‘get it.

I Want The Cheesy Dates At The Movies, The Stupid Walks At The Beach, And Sharing Straws In A Cup

Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe

But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life can be seen either tragic or comic. And it’s your choice. Is life a big, long, tiresome slog from sadness to regret to guilt to resentment to self-pity? Or is life weird, outrageous, bizarre, ironic, and just stupid? Gotta go with stupid. It’s not the easy way out. Self pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism. That’s tough. – Marco, Animorphs #35: The Proposal.

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong

There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.

None of us is as dumb as all of us. It means that when you get a group of people together to make a critical decision, groupthink can set in. There’s all this technical information, a critical decision needs to be made, and everyone starts marching in the same direction. There might be some people who think it’s the wrong decision, but they don’t say anything. They just remain a part of the group. We’ve learned that groups can make stupid decisions that no single individual in the group would make.

Their stupidity does not amaze me, its when they’re smart that amazes me. It’s baffling whenever you find someone who’s smart – incredible. Soon you’ll have zoos for such things

Stupidity has a certain charm – ignorance does not

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy’s pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.

A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That’s an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.

If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

It’s a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those

All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people’s, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.

Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

The Democratic Party is a bunch of sheep herding voters and a bunch of spoiled intellectuals who don’t have the nerve to do anything.

I will cross that bridge when it comes. I am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm. I am into it in a big way, and I am good at it, and I am going to get very, very rich and then I will get out and we will see what comes after that.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

The more stupid and unlucky man is, the more claims he makes to the woman.

Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

There are 50 new tabloids every year, and I’m in them, and I read them, and I do stupid things.

My definition of stupid is wasting your opportunity to be yourself because I think everybody has a uniqueness and everybody’s good at something.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it’s dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.

I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.

Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.

I’m very intelligent. I’m capable of doing everything put to me. I’ve launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I’m living proof blondes are not stupid.

The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.

I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

Will the highways on the Internet become more few?

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

When you point a finger at the moon to indicate the moon, instead of looking at the moon, the stupid ones look at your finger.

They’re teenagers, man. They’re really stupid, so you should blend right in.

One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves. Those who simply act like lions are stupid.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

A writer should not be too intelligent, nor too stupid, but somewhere in between.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.

I don’t think my opinions are stupid but other people do, so it’s better to keep them to myself

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid.