Stupid quotes

Stupid

4.3K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

4.3K quotes

Explore further

Browse quotes that often appear alongside stupid — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.

Quote collection

Stupid quotes (page 25 of 214)

Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.

Coco Chanel Fashion Designer
Stupid

"In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb."

Read quote 7 likes
Conrad Veidt Actor
Stupid

"I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul."

Read quote 7 likes
Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Stupid

"I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time."

Read quote 7 likes
Bill Hicks Comedian, Writer
Stupid

"Truly, the only stupid people I've ever met, the most absolutely clueless, are the very people that produce television."

Read quote 7 likes
Amy Adams Actress
Stupid

"I was blonde most of my life and I had to dye my hair for a role. I couldn’t believe the difference when I went red. I just felt ‘wow, I’m home’. It’s great. You do something stupid when you’re blonde and you’re dumb. Do something stupid when you’re red and you’re a character."

Read quote 7 likes
Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
Stupid

"If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at."

Read quote 7 likes
Stupid

"New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors."

Read quote 7 likes
Stupid

"A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor."

Read quote 7 likes
Veronica Roth Author
Stupid

"No. Because it's so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?" "And a half," he says."

Read quote 7 likes
Stupid

"The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led."

Read quote 7 likes
Stupid

"Actresses get stupid questions asked of them all the time, like, ‘How do you stay sexy?’ or ‘What’s your sexiest quality?’ All these ridiculous things you would never ask a man."

Read quote 7 likes
Robert Anton Wilson Author, Philosopher
Stupid

"Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation over and see if there’s a doorway somewhere. I think most people eventually do look for the doorway and stop bumping into the wall"

Read quote 7 likes
Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
Stupid

"The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful."

Read quote 7 likes